Title: Livy /
Authors: Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth, 1958-; Chaplin, Jane D., 1964-; Chaplin, Jane D., 1964-; Kraus, Christina Shuttleworth, 1958-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Livy; Geschiedschrijving.; Romeinse oudheid.; Rome History; Rome History Historiography.; Romeinse rijk.; Rome History Historiography; Rome History Historiography.
Abstract: This book contains 18 important essays on the work of Livy, which together present a picture of this creative and acutely observant historian writing during the Augustan principate.
Contents: Introduction / J.D. Chaplin and C.S. Kraus -- I. Outlook -- 1. The dating of Livy's first decade / T.J. Luce -- 2. Livy's preface / J.L. Moles -- II. Structure -- 3. The structure of Livy's history / P.A. Stadter -- 4. Structuring Roman history : the consular year and the Roman historical tradition / J. Rich -- 5. Design and Structure in Livy : 5.32-55 / T.J. Luce -- III. Language and style -- 6. Comedy, wit, and humour in Livy / L. Catin -- 7. The literary techniques of Livy / P.G. Walsh -- 8. The style of Livy / A.H. McDonald -- 9. Form and language in Livy's triumph notices / J.E. Phillips -- IV. Narrative -- 10. An introduction to Books 29 and 30 / E. Burck -- 11. Livy and the story of Horatius I.24-26 / J.B. Solodow -- 12. Livy's comic narrative of the Bacchanalia / A.C. Scafuro -- V. Cultural history -- 13. The religious position of Livy's history / W. Liebeschuetz -- 14. The body female and the body politic : Livy's Lucretia and Verginia / S.R. Joshel -- 15. Livy's revolution : civic identity and the creation of the Res Publica / A.M. Feldherr -- VI. Sources and working methods -- 16. Livy and his sources / S.P. Oakley -- 17. Livy's sources and methods of composition in Books 31-33 / J. Briscoe -- 18. Livy and Polybius / H. Trankle -- Major editions of the text of Livy.