Fiction as History
Subtitle: Nero to Julian (Sather Classical Lectures)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 4, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780520088245
Subjects: Early Church; History of ideas, intellectual history; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Latin Literature; Historiography; History - General History; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Latin; Literary Criticism; Roman Literature; Ancient - General; Europe - General; General; History / Ancient / General; History and criticism; Literature and history; Rome
First sentence: In the second century of our era, probably in the final decade of the reign of the philosophic emperor Marcus Aurelius (the years from 170 to 180), two very different Greek writers addressed a problem that conspicuously unsettled thoughtful people of the time.