Ronald Mellor demonstrates that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors as a literary, not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be evaluated in that context.
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Mellor has a comprehensive view of Roman historiography and has included nearly all of the Roman historians... and all the major genres that treat the Roman past. He is, moreover, consistently sympathetic to his subject and tries to treat the Roman historians on their own terms. --John Marincola, Phoenix.
Mellor's qualifications are impeccable and very few scholars could have produced such an accessible and informative introduction to Roman historiography.
–Religious Studies Review
excelent textbook, attractively written.
–AJP
Sometime in my scholarly career, I hope to write a book as helpful as Professor Mellor's study of the Roman historians Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Ammianus Marcellinus..
Mellor's qualifications are impeccable and very few scholars could have produced such an accessible and informative introduction to Roman historiography.
–Religious Studies Review
excelent textbook, attractively written.
–AJP
Sometime in my scholarly career, I hope to write a book as helpful as Professor Mellor's study of the Roman historians Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Ammianus Marcellinus..
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Ronald Mellor is Professor of History at UCLA. He is the author of Tacitus (1993) and The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology (1997), both published by Routledge.
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While many ancient societies learned writing systems from more advanced neighbors, most worked out their own literary genres in terms of their own intellectual and cultural environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Julius Caesar, Res Gestae, Roman Empire, Historia Augusta, Gallic War, First Punic War, Marc Antony, Second Punic War, Republican Rome, The Conspiracy of Catiline, Ammianus Marcellinus, Asinius Pollio, Edward Gibbon, Hannibalic War, Marcus Aurelius, Achaean League, Aulus Gellius, Cato the Elder, Cremutius Cordus, Forum of Augustus, Middle Ages, Peloponnesian War, Scipio Aemilianus, Aemilius Scaurus, Appius Claudius New!
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While many ancient societies learned writing systems from more advanced neighbors, most worked out their own literary genres in terms of their own intellectual and cultural environment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rhetorical training, surviving books Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Julius Caesar, Res Gestae, Roman Empire, Historia Augusta, Gallic War, First Punic War, Marc Antony, Second Punic War, Republican Rome, The Conspiracy of Catiline, Ammianus Marcellinus, Asinius Pollio, Edward Gibbon, Hannibalic War, Marcus Aurelius, Achaean League, Aulus Gellius, Cato the Elder, Cremutius Cordus, Forum of Augustus, Middle Ages, Peloponnesian War, Scipio Aemilianus, Aemilius Scaurus, Appius Claudius New!
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- Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics) by Suetonius on 5 pages
- The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides on 4 pages
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon on page 111, page 127, and page 158
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 of 6 (Everyman's Library) by Edward Gibbon on page 111, page 127, and page 158
- The Greek Historians by T. James Luce in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Peace Treaties and International Law in European History: From the Late Middle Ages to World War One by Randall Lesaffer on page 108
- A Companion to the Roman Republic (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) by Nathan Rosenstein in Back Matter
- The Ancient Greek World (World in Ancient Times) by Jennifer T. Roberts in Back Matter
- The Ancient Roman World (World in Ancient Times) by Ronald Mellor in Back Matter
- The Historians of Ancient Rome (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World) by RONALD MELLOR in Back Matter
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