Ancient Historiography and its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman

Contents......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
PART I: AUTHOR AND AUDIENCE......Page 28
1. Narrative and Speech Problems in Thucydides Book I......Page 30
2. Divide and Conquer: Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7......Page 55
3. Scipio the Matchmaker......Page 75
4. Velleius Mythistoricus......Page 88
PART II: QUALITY AND PLEASURE......Page 100
5. Romani ueteres atque urbani sales: A Note on Cicero De Oratore 2.262 and Lucilius 173M......Page 102
6. Allusion and Contrast in the Letters of Nicias (Thuc. 7.11–15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M)......Page 112
7. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii......Page 133
8. Amores 1.1–5......Page 154
9. Rome and Persia 357–9: The Role of Tamsapor......Page 170
PART III: POETRY AND POLITICS......Page 178
10. Munera uestra cano: The Poet, the Gods, and the Thematic Unity of Georgics 1......Page 180
11. Eros and Empire: Virgil and the Historians on Civil War......Page 198
12. Fathers and Sons: The Manlii Torquati and Family Continuity in Catullus and Horace......Page 220
13. Juvenal and the Delatores......Page 239
14. Roma and Her Tutelary Deity: Names and Ancient Evidence......Page 260
PART IV: TACITUS REVIEWED......Page 282
15. Seven Passages of the Annals (and One of Manilius)......Page 284
16. The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi......Page 290
17. Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus’ Annals......Page 309
18. Voices of Resistance......Page 327
19. The Art of Losing: Tacitus and the Disaster Narrative......Page 346
20. The Historian’s Presence, or, There and Back Again......Page 368
21. The Spur of Fame: Annals 4.37–8......Page 379
Bibliography......Page 400
Index Locorum......Page 430
B......Page 457
C......Page 458
G......Page 459
M......Page 460
P......Page 461
S......Page 462
V......Page 463
Z......Page 464