Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla /

Long regarded as a sycophantic producer of overblown moral platitudes, Valerius Maximus emerges from a series of studies as an independent thinker capable of challenging his readers through the material he has collected: he makes them think about real moral dilemmas and grants to non-Roman societies...

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مؤلفون آخرون: Wardle, David (المحرر), Murray, Jeffrey (المحرر)

التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني

اللغة: English

منشور في: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2022.

سلاسل: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; 11.

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الملخص:Long regarded as a sycophantic producer of overblown moral platitudes, Valerius Maximus emerges from a series of studies as an independent thinker capable of challenging his readers through the material he has collected: he makes them think about real moral dilemmas and grants to non-Roman societies a remarkable equivalence to Rome. Through his silences as much as his sermons he decodes the value- and political-system of his day. Valerius is talented as a reader of others and himself was read appreciatively in the Later Empire and even more so by Christians in Medieval Europe.
وصف مادي:1 online resource.
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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