Literary Texts and the Roman Historian

by David Stone Potter

Book Overview

Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read.
Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the contributions of authors in other genres like:
* Cicero
* Lucian
* Aulus Gellius.
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415088968
• ISBN13: 9780415088961
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Roman Literature - An In depth examination

It is one of the great wonders of the modern world that we have as many texts surviving from the ancient world as we do. This book examines in great detail histories done by the ancient romans, trying to piece together additional information from the fragments which we do have. This book is definitely not easy reading, but its thoroughness will satisfy scholars and it is full of enough information to satisfy the interested reader.Literary Texts and the Roman Historian (Approaching the Ancient World)