(Ebook) Literary Texts and the Roman Historian Approaching the Ancient World 1st Edition by David Potter ISBN 0415088968 978-0415088961

(Ebook) Literary Texts and the Roman Historian Approaching the Ancient World 1st Edition by David Potter ISBN 0415088968 978-0415088961

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ISBN 10: 0415088968 

ISBN 13: 978-0415088961

Author: David Potter

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 and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.

Table of contents: 

I. Definitions and Foundations

• Historia as Enquiry

• Historia as Story

• Truth and History

• Some Rules

II. Working with Texts and Sources

• Texts: Sorting Things Out

• Participant Evidence

• Publication and Literary Fashion

• Illustrative Evidence

• Narrative

• Reconstructing Fragmentary Authors

III. Scholarship and Historical Practice

• Scholarship: Standards of Research

• Historians and Records

• Quellenforschung (Source Criticism)

• Near Eastern Records of the Past and the Roman Imagination

• Grammarians and Historians

• The Physical Process

IV. Presentation and Interpretation

• Presentation: The Problem

• Leopold Ranke

• Objectivism and Relativism

• Fact and Presentation: Lucian and Dionysius of Halicarnassus

• Fact and Presentation: Cicero

• Other Forms of Presentation

• Verisimilitude

• Conclusion

V. Final Reflections

• Epilogue: The Discourse of Dominance

• Appendix: Classical Authors Discussed in the Text

• Bibliography

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