Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire)

Murray, Jeffrey (EDT)/ Wardle, David (EDT)

Brill（2021/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 352 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004499409

Full Description

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.

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.

Contents

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