Isbn: 9780715624371 - valerius maximus and the rhetoric of the new nobility (1 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 287 pp.; 24 cm. Contents; Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Audience and design -- The proem and Valerius' audience -- The organization of the collection -- The process of arrangement -- Part III: Sources and reading -- Reading, writing, and "originality," -- Margins of reading: the individual sources -- Conclusions -- Valerian historiography: the case of the civil wars -- Valerius' explicit judgments -- Valerian overviews -- Chapters of civil strife -- Part V: The fallen restored and the republic's restorers -- The opponents of Julius Caesar -- The caesars -- Part VI: Valerian rhetoric and ideology -- Diction -- Word order -- Phrasing and colometry -- Figuration. Subjects; Valerius Maximus. Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX. Didactic literature, Latin History and criticism. Authors and readers Rome. Rhetoric, Ancient. Nobility Rome. Orators Rome ; Biography. Historiography. Tiberius. 1 Kg.…