Reading History in the Roman Empire

Reading History in the Roman Empire 

Edited by: Mario Baumann and Vasileios Liotsakis 

Volume 98 in the series Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110764062

About this book

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Although the relationship of Greco-Roman historians with their readerships has attracted much scholarly attention, classicists principally focus on individual historians, while there has been no collective work on the matter. The editors of this volume aspire to fill this gap and gather papers which offer an overall view of the Greco-Roman readership and of its interaction with ancient historians. The authors of this book endeavor to define the physiognomy of the audience of history in the Roman Era both by exploring the narrative arrangement of ancient historical prose and by using sources in which Greco-Roman intellectuals address the issue of the readership of history. Ancient historians shaped their accounts taking into consideration their readers’ tastes, and this is evident on many different levels, such as the way a historian fashions his authorial image, addresses his readers, or uses certain compositional strategies to elicit the readers’ affective and cognitive responses to his messages. The papers of this volume analyze these narrative aspects and contextualize them within their socio-political environment in order to reveal the ways ancient readerships interacted with and affected Greco-Roman historical prose.

• Language: English
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Copyright year: 2022
• Audience: scholars of literature, history and classical studies
• Pages
  • Front matter: 10
  • Main content: 266
• Illustrations
  • Tables: 9
• Keywords: Greco-Roman historiography; history of reading; reader-response criticism

eBook

• Published: January 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9783110764062

Hardcover

• Published: January 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9783110763782

  Frontmatter
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I

Preface Open Access

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Contents Open Access

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Introduction Mario Baumann and Vasileios Liotsakis Open Access

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Sallust, the lector eruditus and the Purposes of History Edwin Shaw Open Access

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The Audience of Latin Historical Works in the First Century BCE in Light of Geographical Descriptions Marine Miquel Open Access

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Livy, the Reader Involved, and the Audience of Roman Historiography Dennis Pausch Open Access

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From ἐξήγησις to μίμησις: Thucydides’ Readership in the ὑπομνήματα from the Roman Period Aurélien Pulice Open Access

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Historiography in the Margins and the Reader as a Touchstone Pauline Duchêne Open Access

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A History in Letters? The Intersection of Epistolarity and Historiography in Pliny Ari Zatlin Open Access

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Readership and Reading Practices of Ancient History in the Early Roman Empire: Tacitus’ Accessions of Tiberius and Nero as a Case Study in Affective Historiography George Baroud Open Access

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Reading Spaces, Observing Spectators in Tacitus’ Histories Christoph G. Leidl Open Access

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How to Satisfy Everyone: Diverse Readerly Expectations and Multiple Authorial Personae in Arrian’s Anabasis Vasileios Liotsakis Open Access

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Multiple Authors and Puzzled Readers in the Historia Augusta Adam M. Kemezis Open Access

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Index locorum Open Access

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Index nominum et rerum Open Access

261