Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla

ISBN-13: 9781107162594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 338 str.

Matthew B. Roller

Opis

Presents a coherent model for understanding historical examples in ancient Rome and their rhetorical, moral and historiographical functions.

Spis treści

Introduction: the work of examples; 1. Horatius Cocles: commemorating and imitating a great deed; 2. Cloelia: timelessness and gender; 3. Appius Claudius Caecus: positive and negative exemplarity; 4. Gaius Duilius: exemplarity and innovation; 5. Fabius Cunctator: competing judgements and moral change; 6. Cornelia: an exemplary matrona among the Gracchi; 7. Cicero's house and 'Aspiring to Kingship'; Conclusion: exemplarity and stoicism.