Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-49940-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 642 g

Reihe: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire

Long regarded as a sycophantic producer of overblown moral platitudes, Valerius Maximus emerges from a series of studies as an independent thinker capable of challenging his readers through the material he has collected: he makes them think about real moral dilemmas and grants to non-Roman societies a remarkable equivalence to Rome. Through his silences as much as his sermons he decodes the value- and political-system of his day. Valerius is talented as a reader of others and himself was read appreciatively in the Later Empire and even more so by Christians in Medieval Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Murray, Jeffrey

Wardle, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series

Carsten H. Lange and Jesper M. Madsen

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Jeffrey Murray

PART 1: Architecture and Order

2 “Not Putting Roman History in Order?” – Regal, Republican and Imperial Boundaries

David Wardle

3 And Now for Something Completely Different …

Sarah Lawrence

PART 2: Roman History

4 Coriolanus as an Exemplar in Valerius Maximus

John Atkinson

5 Boundary Issues: Valerius Maximus on Rome’s Italian Allies

Roman Roth

6 “Others Took Money from That Victory, but He Took the Glory”: Spoils of War in the Facta et dicta memorabilia

Simon Lentzsch

7 Forgetting Germanicus: Reading Valerius Maximus through Tacitus’ Tiberian Books

Alain Gowing

PART 3: Values

8 Valerius Maximus’ Engagement with Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations on Virtue and the Endurance of Pain, in 3.3 De patientia

Rebecca Langlands

9 Amicitia and the Politics of Friendship in Valerius Maximus

George Baroud

10 Valerius Maximus on Vice

Jeffrey Murray

11 Efficacior Pictura: Morality and the Arts in Valerius Maximus

Emma Brobeck

Part 4: Reception and Tradition

12 Valerius Maximus’ Facta et Dicta Memorabilia and the Roman Biographical Tradition

Diederik Burgersdijk

13 Preaching Ancient History: Valerius Maximus and His Manuscript Reception

Kyle Conrau-Lewis

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Murray (PhD 2016 Cape Town) is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cape Town. He has published several articles, book chapters, and reviews, and is currently preparing for publication a historical and historiographical commentary on Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, Book 9.

David Wardle (DPhil. 1989 Oxford) is Professor of Classics in the University of Cape Town (South Africa). He published the first modern commentary on a book of Valerius Maximus (Oxford University Press, 1998), other monographs in the field of Latin Literature and Roman historiography and articles on these areas and Roman imperial history.

Contributors are John Atkinson, George Baroud, Emma Brobeck, Diederik Burgersdijk, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Alain M. Gowing, Rebecca Langlands, Sarah Lawrence, Simon Lentzsch, Jeffrey Murray, Roman Roth, David Wardle.