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

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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Other Authors: Wardle, David (Editor), Murray, Jeffrey (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2022.

Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ; 11.

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Classical Studies.
Greek & Latin Literature.

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Call Number: PA3001.D54

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series
  • Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction
  • Jeffrey Murray
  • PART 1: Architecture and Order
  • 2 "Not Putting Roman History in Order?" - Regal, Republican and Imperial Boundaries
  • David Wardle
  • 3 And Now for Something Completely Different ...
  • Sarah Lawrence
  • PART 2: Roman History
  • 4 Coriolanus as an Exemplar in Valerius Maximus
  • John Atkinson
  • 5 Boundary Issues: Valerius Maximus on Rome's Italian Allies
  • Roman Roth
  • 6 "Others Took Money from That Victory, but He Took the Glory": Spoils of War in the Facta et dicta memorabilia
  • Simon Lentzsch
  • 7 Forgetting Germanicus: Reading Valerius Maximus through Tacitus' Tiberian Books
  • Alain Gowing
  • PART 3: Values
  • 8 Valerius Maximus' Engagement with Cicero's Tusculan Disputations on Virtue and the Endurance of Pain, in 3.3 De patientia
  • Rebecca Langlands
  • 9 Amicitia and the Politics of Friendship in Valerius Maximus
  • George Baroud
  • 10 Valerius Maximus on Vice
  • Jeffrey Murray
  • 11 Efficacior Pictura: Morality and the Arts in Valerius Maximus
  • Emma Brobeck
  • Part 4: Reception and Tradition
  • 12 Valerius Maximus' Facta et Dicta Memorabilia and the Roman Biographical Tradition
  • Diederik Burgersdijk
  • 13 Preaching Ancient History: Valerius Maximus and His Manuscript Reception
  • Kyle Conrau-Lewis
  • Index.