Free eBooks Literary Texts And The Roman Historian (Approaching The Ancient World) Available To Downloads
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read.Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the contributions of authors in other genres like:* Cicero* Lucian* Aulus Gellius.Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.
Series: Approaching the Ancient World
Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Routledge (April 2, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415088968
ISBN-13: 978-0415088961
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Best Sellers Rank: #1,166,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1475 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods > Ancient & Classical #1657 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods > Medieval #2108 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > History > Ancient
It is one of the great wonders of the modern world that we have as many texts surviving from the ancient world as we do. This book examines in great detail histories done by the ancient romans, trying to piece together additional information from the fragments which we do have. This book is definitely not easy reading, but its thoroughness will satisfy scholars and it is full of enough information to satisfy the interested reader.Literary Texts and the Roman Historian (Approaching the Ancient World)
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian (Approaching the Ancient World) Beowulf (Broadview Literary Texts) (Broadview Literary Texts Series) Ancient History from Coins (Approaching the Ancient World) Roman History from Coins: Some uses of the Imperial Coinage to the Historian Egyptian Mythology: Discover the Ancient Secrets of Egyptian Mythology (Egypt, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Civilizations, Gods, Pharaohs, Ra, Isis, Set) (Ancient Civilizations and Mythology) Military History: Historical Armies of the World & How They Changed the World (Greek History, Spartans, Roman Army, Ancient Rome, Egyptian History, Special Ops) Books of Breathing and Related Texts -Late Egyptian Religious Texts in the British Museum Vol.1 (Catalogue of the Books of the Dead and Other Religious Texts in the British Museum) Sumerians: Discover History's First Civilization: Everything You Need to Know About the Sumerians of the Ancient World (Ancient History, Ancient Civilizations Handbook) Introduction to Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics: Approaching a Complex World Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies) Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents: Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over (Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents) Ancient Coin Collecting III: The Roman World - Politics and Propaganda (No. 3) Directory of Literary Magazines 2001 (Clmp Directory of Literary Magazines and Presses) The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Penguin Dictionary) The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers (The I.B.Tauris Literary Guides for Travellers) Literary Market Place 2015: The Directory of the American Book Publishing Industry with Industry Indexes (Literary Market Place (Lmp)) History: Greatest Ancient Civilization History: (History Rome, Romans, Egypt, SPQR, Aztec, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Julius Caesar, Jesus, Muhammed, Alexander the Great) Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness
