Reading History in the Roman Empire

book: Reading History in the Roman Empire

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Reading History in the Roman Empire

Edited by: Mario Baumann and Vasileios Liotsakis

Volume 98 in the series Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110764062

About this book

Open Access

Although the relationship of Greco-Roman historians with their readerships has attracted much scholarly attention, classicists principally focus on individual historians, while there has been no collective work on the matter. The editors of this volume aspire to fill this gap and gather papers which offer an overall view of the Greco-Roman readership and of its interaction with ancient historians. The authors of this book endeavor to define the physiognomy of the audience of history in the Roman Era both by exploring the narrative arrangement of ancient historical prose and by using sources in which Greco-Roman intellectuals address the issue of the readership of history. Ancient historians shaped their accounts taking into consideration their readers’ tastes, and this is evident on many different levels, such as the way a historian fashions his authorial image, addresses his readers, or uses certain compositional strategies to elicit the readers’ affective and cognitive responses to his messages. The papers of this volume analyze these narrative aspects and contextualize them within their socio-political environment in order to reveal the ways ancient readerships interacted with and affected Greco-Roman historical prose.

Author / Editor information

Mario Baumann, TU Dresden and Vasileios Liotsakis, University of the Peloponnese.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Mario Baumann and Vasileios Liotsakis Open Access Download PDF	1
Sallust, the lector eruditus and the Purposes of History Edwin Shaw Open Access Download PDF	13
The Audience of Latin Historical Works in the First Century BCE in Light of Geographical Descriptions Marine Miquel Open Access Download PDF	35
Livy, the Reader Involved, and the Audience of Roman Historiography Dennis Pausch Open Access Download PDF	59
From ἐξήγησις to μίμησις: Thucydides’ Readership in the ὑπομνήματα from the Roman Period Aurélien Pulice Open Access Download PDF	79
Historiography in the Margins and the Reader as a Touchstone Pauline Duchêne Open Access Download PDF	115
A History in Letters? The Intersection of Epistolarity and Historiography in Pliny Ari Zatlin Open Access Download PDF	131
Readership and Reading Practices of Ancient History in the Early Roman Empire: Tacitus’ Accessions of Tiberius and Nero as a Case Study in Affective Historiography George Baroud Open Access Download PDF	149
Reading Spaces, Observing Spectators in Tacitus’ Histories Christoph G. Leidl Open Access Download PDF	175
How to Satisfy Everyone: Diverse Readerly Expectations and Multiple Authorial Personae in Arrian’s Anabasis Vasileios Liotsakis Open Access Download PDF	193
Multiple Authors and Puzzled Readers in the Historia Augusta Adam M. Kemezis Open Access Download PDF	223
Index locorum Open Access Download PDF	251
Index nominum et rerum Open Access Download PDF	261

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: scholars of literature, history and classical studies
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 266
Illustrations
- Tables: 9
Keywords: Greco-Roman historiography; history of reading; reader-response criticism

eBook

Published: January 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783110764062

Hardcover

Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110763782