Literary texts and the Roman historian / David S. Potter.
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TextSeries: Approaching the ancient worldPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 041508895X
- 0415088968
- 870.9358
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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.