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Record Nr.

UNISA996217844003316

Autore

Yarrow Liv Mariah

Titolo

Historiography at the end of the Republic [[electronic resource] ] : provincial perspectives on Roman rule / / Liv Mariah Yarrow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-90588-3

9786610905881

0-19-153509-5

1-4294-9188-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Collana

Oxford classical monographs

Disciplina

937.05

Soggetti

Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-376) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Note on Texts and Translations; Abbreviations; Introduction: Setting the Scene; 1. The Power of the Intellectual: Leading Thinkers, Thinking Leaders; 2. Theory and Method; 3. Constructing the Narrative: Authorial Objectives and the Use of Rome; 4. From the Outside Looking in: Roman Culture and Domestic Politics; 5. The Romans Abroad: Force, Diplomacy, and the Management of Empire; 6. Enemies of Rome? The Symbolic Alternatives; Conclusion; Appendix: Issues of Dating; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study of six historians from the edges of the Roman world at the end of the Republic - the author of I Maccabees, Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus, Pompeius Trogus, Nicolaus of Damascus, and Memnon of Heraclea - combines discussion of their biographical details, the intellectual and elite culture in which they composed, and the methodological difficulties of interpreting fragmentary texts, with textual analysis of their representations of Rome. These authors show remarkable unityin their acceptance of Roman hegemony. Nevertheless, their interpretations of Roman rule assume political significa