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This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, for whom twenty-one scholars have contributed essays reflecting the interests and approaches that have typified Woodman's own work. The authors that he has continuously illuminated - especially Velleius, Horace, Virgil, Sallust, and Tacitus - figure particularly prominently.
Contents
Introduction ; I. AUTHOR AND AUDIENCE ; 1. Narrative Problems in Thucydides Book I ; 2. Divide and Conquer: Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7 ; 3. Scipio the Matchmaker ; 4. Velleius Mythistoricus ; II. QUALITY AND PLEASURE ; 5. Romani ueteres atque urbani sales: a Note on Cic. De Orat. 2.262 and Lucilius 173M ; 6. Allusion and Contrast in the Letters of Nicias (Thuc. 7.11-15) and Pompey (Sall. Hist. 2.98M) ; 7. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii ; 8. Amores 1.1-5 ; 9. Rome and Persia 357-9: The Role of Tamsapor ; III. POETRY AND POLITICS ; 10. Munera uestra cano: The Poet, the Gods and the Thematic Unity of Georgics I ; 11. Eros and Empire: Virgil and the Historians on Civil War ; 12. Fathers and Sons: The Manlii Torquati and Family Continuity in Catullus and Horace ; 13. Juvenal and the Delatores ; 14. Roma and her Tutelary Deities: Names and Associations ; IV. TACITUS REVIEWED ; 15. Seven Passages of the Annals (And One of Manilius) ; 16. The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28) ; 17. Pompeius Trogus in Tacitus' Annals ; 18. Voices of Resistance ; 19. The Art of Losing: Tacitus and the Disaster Narrative ; 20. The Historian's Presence, or There and Back Again ; 21. The Spur of Fame: Tacitus Annals 4.37-8
