Sallust's Histories and Triumviral Historiography: Confronting the End of History

ISBN-13: 9781032092522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 168 str.

Jennifer Gerrish

Opis

Sallust’s Histories and Triumviral Historiography explores the historiographical innovations of the first century Roman historian Sallust, focusing on the fragmentary Histories, an account of the turbulent years after the death of the dictator Sulla.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction: history under the triumvirs

1 Reading the Histories

I Reading fragments

II Sallust’s triumviral world: between republic and empire

III Sallust’s approach to history

2 Analogical historiography

I Analogical historiography

II Training the reader

III Allusion, repetition, and trauma

IV Analogy and the Histories’ call to action

3 Historians in the Histories

I Who can write history?

II Sertorius: tension

III Pompey: a challenge

IV Spartacus: actor in search of auctor

V Historians in the Histories

4 Digressive digressions

I Scylla

II The Blessed Isles

III Implications

5 Triumviral historiography and the end of history

Index

O autorze

Acknowledgements; Introduction: History Under the Triumvirs; Chapter One: Reading the Histories; Chapter Two: Analogical Historiography; Chapter Three: Historians in the Histories; Chapter Four: Digressive Digressions; Chapter Five: Triumviral Historiography and the End of History; Index