The Fragments of the Roman Historians

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2720 Seiten

2013
Oxford University Press
9780199277056 (ISBN)

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This major work is a definitive edition of the fragmentary texts of all the Roman historical writers. Volume 1 provides an introduction to each historian, outlining their life and works. Volume 2 sets out the critical text with facing English translation, and volume 3 offers a detailed and up-to-date commentary on each of the historical fragments.

The Fragments of the Roman Historians is a definitive and comprehensive edition of the fragmentary texts of all the Roman historians whose works are lost. Historical writing was an important part of the literary culture of ancient Rome, and its best-known exponents, including Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, and Suetonius, provide much of our knowledge of Roman history. However, these authors constitute only a small minority of the Romans who wrote historical works from around 200 BC to AD 250. In this period we know of more than 100 writers of history, biography, and memoirs whose works no longer survive for us to read. They include well-known figures such as Cato the Elder, Sulla, Cicero, and the emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, Hadrian, and Septimius Severus.

Beginning with a detailed introduction explaining the history of scholarly research on the subject, the principles and methods used in editing the fragmentary texts, the literary style of the historians, and a surevy of the secondary texts that cite and preserve the fragments of the lost works, these three volumes bring together everything that is known about these historians and their works. Volume one provides an introduction to each historian, outlining what is known of their life and works. Volume two sets out the critical text with facing English translation, and volume three offers a detailed and up-to-date commentary on each of the historical fragments. The work also lists the full concordances with previous editions and contains detailed indexes.

Undertaken as a collaborative research project by a team of ten UK-based scholars, this work will become an important and standard text for anyone working on the Roman historians and ancient history.

T. J. Cornell is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester. His reseach interests include ancient historiography and the history and archaeology of Rome and Italy to the end of the Republic. Editorial Committee: E. H. Bispham, T. J. Cornell, J. W. Rich, C. J. Smith

VOLUME 1: INTRODUCTION; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; GREEK AND LATIN TEXTS: ABBREVIATIONS AND EDITIONS; TABLES; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; APPENDIX 1: AUTHORS NOT INCLUDED (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER); APPENDIX 2: OTHERWISE UNKNOWN HISTORIANS AND BIOGRAPHERS CITED IN THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA; APPENDIX 3: FROM RICCOBONI TO ROTH: EARLY EDITIONS OF THE FRAGMENTS OF THE ROMAN HISTORIANS; APPENDIX 4: A NOTE ON DATES; VOLUME 2: TEXT AND TRANSLATION; VOLUME 3: COMMENTARY; INDEXES; CONCORDANCES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.12.2013
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 241 mm
Gewicht	4289 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780199277056 / 9780199277056
Zustand	Neuware