Barnes Images and Insults

Ancient Historiography and the Outbreak of the Tarentine War
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-515-11671-8
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band Band 187, 170 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Historia – Einzelschriften.

The Pyrrhic War attracted a great deal of attention in antiquity as the first contest between the burgeoning Roman Empire and the powers of the Hellenistic world. While blame for the initiation of hostilities fell squarely upon the polity of the Tarentines, scholars have long been wary of accounts relating how this conflict began.

Three episodes set at Taras prove important for the construction both of Roman history and of narratives in antiquity. Approached as a case study of inventio in historiography, this monograph examines the aims and techniques of authors from Polybius to Zonaras in their depictions of the war’s onset. No two of our sources offer the same version of events and new details emerge over the course of time. Analysis of the perception of injury, on the part of the Romans and the Tarentines, considers the implications of the ‘just’ war on the writing of history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnes, Christopher L. H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Hellenismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;8
2;A NOTE ON THE TRANSLITERATION OF GREEK NAMES;10
3;ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;12
4;INTRODUCTION;14
5;CHAPTER 1 – BELLUM TARENTINUM OR BELLUM PYRRHICUM: POLYBIUS, ENNIUS, AND THE SEARCH FOR KERNELS OF TRUTH;22
6;CHAPTER 2 – OUTRAGE AND INVENTIO: DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS;31
7;CHAPTER 3 – PLUTARCH: THE CONSEQUENCES OF PYRRHOCENTRICITY;61
8;CHAPTER 4 – THE LIVIAN TRADITION I: THE PERIOCHAE, VALERIUS MAXIMUS, AND FLORUS;69
9;CHAPTER 5 – THE LIVIAN TRADITION?: APPIAN;85
10;CHAPTER 6 – CASSIUS DIO: NEW EXEMPLA AND METON’S FINAL APPEARANCE;106
11;CHAPTER 7 – THE LIVIAN TRADITION II: EUTROPIUS AND OROSIUS;123
12;CHAPTER 8 – ZONARAS: INVENTIO AND EPITOME;130
13;CHAPTER 9 – HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE CAUSES OF THE ‘JUST’ WAR;139
14;CONCLUSION;149
15;SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY;153
16;INDEX;159
17;INDEX OF SOURCES;166
18;GREEK INDEX;170
19;LATIN INDEX;171