Literary texts and the Roman historian /
Potter, D. S. 1957-
Literary texts and the Roman historian / David S. Potter. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. - x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-211) and index.
Introduction: The plan of the book -- Definition: Historia as inquiry, historia as story, Truth and history, Some rules -- Texts: Sorting things out, Participant evidence, Publication and literary fashion, Illustrative evidence, Narrative, Reconstructing fragmentary authors -- Scholarship: Standards of research, Historians and records, Quellenforschung, Near Eastern records of the past and the Roman imagination, Grammarians and historians, The physical process, Conclusion -- Presentation: The problem, Leopold von Ranke, Objectivism and relativism, Fact and presentation: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Lucian, Fact and presentation: Cicero, Other forms of presentation, Verisimilitude, Conclusion -- Epilogue: the discourse of dominance?: Appendix: classical authors discussed in the text.
041508895X hardback 0415088968 paperback
Latin literature--History and criticism
Civilization, Ancient, in literature
History, Ancient--Historiography
Literature and history--Rome
Rhetoric, Ancient
Rome--Historiography
870.9358
Literary texts and the Roman historian / David S. Potter. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1999. - x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-211) and index.
Introduction: The plan of the book -- Definition: Historia as inquiry, historia as story, Truth and history, Some rules -- Texts: Sorting things out, Participant evidence, Publication and literary fashion, Illustrative evidence, Narrative, Reconstructing fragmentary authors -- Scholarship: Standards of research, Historians and records, Quellenforschung, Near Eastern records of the past and the Roman imagination, Grammarians and historians, The physical process, Conclusion -- Presentation: The problem, Leopold von Ranke, Objectivism and relativism, Fact and presentation: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Lucian, Fact and presentation: Cicero, Other forms of presentation, Verisimilitude, Conclusion -- Epilogue: the discourse of dominance?: Appendix: classical authors discussed in the text.
041508895X hardback 0415088968 paperback
Latin literature--History and criticism
Civilization, Ancient, in literature
History, Ancient--Historiography
Literature and history--Rome
Rhetoric, Ancient
Rome--Historiography
870.9358