The Fabii and the Gauls: Studies in Historical Thought and Historiography in Republican Rome

Author:   James H Richardson (University of Wales, Trinity Saint David)
Publisher:   Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Volume:   222
ISBN:  

9783515100403


Pages:   186
Publication Date:   08 March 2012
Format:   Hardback
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The Fabii and the Gauls: Studies in Historical Thought and Historiography in Republican Rome


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This book explores how Roman ideas about human behaviour and historiography affected the ways in which the Romans wrote about their past. The first of the book's three chapters considers Roman views concerning human behaviour and the impact that these had on the traditions of Rome's past. The second looks at the presentation of the gens Fabia in the literary evidence and at the ways individual Fabii were said to have behaved. The final chapter examines the evidence for the Gallic sack of Rome and considers the influence that Greek historical traditions had on Rome's own traditions. Numerous members of the gens Fabia were said to have acted in a similar manner and even to have done the same things, while the tradition of the Gallic sack bears a striking resemblance to the tradition of the Persian sack of Athens. Scholarship usually maintains that individual historians such as Fabius Pictor were responsible for devising these sorts of parallels, and that they did so for their own literary and political purposes. The principal argument put forward here is that they are the inevitable product of Roman historical thought, and so need not be attributed to any one historian.

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Author:   James H Richardson (University of Wales, Trinity Saint David)
Publisher:   Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Imprint:   Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Volume:   222
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9783515100403


ISBN 10:   3515100407
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   08 March 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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...ein gut lesbares, klar formuliertes Buch [...], das reich an Argumenten und klaren Positionen ist. Allein deswegen kann es fur zukunftige Forschungen zur romischen Historiographie, zum romischen Geschichtsbewusstsein wie auch zur fruhen romischen Geschichte als anregend gelten. Anyone interested in early Roman history or historiography will want to engage with this book. James H. Richardson hat mit dieser uberarbeiteten Version seiner 2004 approbierten Dissertation ein sehr gutes, ja hervorragendes Buch vorgelegt, das sich nicht nur durch eine souverane Beherrschung der antiken Quellen sowie eine solide Kenntnis der einschlagigen modernen Sekundarliteratur auszeichnet, sondern vor allem durch eine ideenreiche und wahrhaft innovative Betrachtungsweise der literarischen Uberlieferung besticht. The Fabii and the Gauls is an important contribution to the field of Roman Republican history and opens up promising new lines of inquiry into the intersection between Romans gens and Roman historiography. It will prove fruitful reading for scholars and students of all levels. The book presents an innovatory insight to the ancient understanding of history [...] due to the originality of the author's approach, 'The Fabii and Gauls' will certainly occupy the place in the canon of the literature on Roman historiography.


""...ein gut lesbares, klar formuliertes Buch [...], das reich an Argumenten und klaren Positionen ist. Allein deswegen kann es fur zukunftige Forschungen zur romischen Historiographie, zum romischen Geschichtsbewusstsein wie auch zur fruhen romischen Geschichte als anregend gelten.""""Anyone interested in early Roman history or historiography will want to engage with this book.""""James H. Richardson hat mit dieser uberarbeiteten Version seiner 2004 approbierten Dissertation ein sehr gutes, ja hervorragendes Buch vorgelegt, das sich nicht nur durch eine souverane Beherrschung der antiken Quellen sowie eine solide Kenntnis der einschlagigen modernen Sekundarliteratur auszeichnet, sondern vor allem durch eine ideenreiche und wahrhaft innovative Betrachtungsweise der literarischen Uberlieferung besticht.""""The Fabii and the Gauls is an important contribution to the field of Roman Republican history and opens up promising new lines of inquiry into the intersection between Romans gens and Roman historiography. It will prove fruitful reading for scholars and students of all levels.""""The book presents an innovatory insight to the ancient understanding of history [...] due to the originality of the author's approach, 'The Fabii and Gauls' will certainly occupy the place in the canon of the literature on Roman historiography.""


"""...ein gut lesbares, klar formuliertes Buch [...], das reich an Argumenten und klaren Positionen ist. Allein deswegen kann es fur zukunftige Forschungen zur romischen Historiographie, zum romischen Geschichtsbewusstsein wie auch zur fruhen romischen Geschichte als anregend gelten.""""Anyone interested in early Roman history or historiography will want to engage with this book.""""James H. Richardson hat mit dieser uberarbeiteten Version seiner 2004 approbierten Dissertation ein sehr gutes, ja hervorragendes Buch vorgelegt, das sich nicht nur durch eine souverane Beherrschung der antiken Quellen sowie eine solide Kenntnis der einschlagigen modernen Sekundarliteratur auszeichnet, sondern vor allem durch eine ideenreiche und wahrhaft innovative Betrachtungsweise der literarischen Uberlieferung besticht.""""The Fabii and the Gauls is an important contribution to the field of Roman Republican history and opens up promising new lines of inquiry into the intersection between Romans gens and Roman historiography. It will prove fruitful reading for scholars and students of all levels.""""The book presents an innovatory insight to the ancient understanding of history [...] due to the originality of the author's approach, 'The Fabii and Gauls' will certainly occupy the place in the canon of the literature on Roman historiography."""


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James H. Richardson is Lecturer in Classics at Massey University.

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