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Fabii and the Gauls: Studies in Historical Thought and Historiography in Republican Rome

Contributor(s): Richardson, James H (Author)

ISBN: 9783515100403

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH

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Pub Date: March 8, 2012

Dewey: 930.1

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.70" H x 9.60" L x 6.90" W ( 0.97 lbs) 186 pages

BISAC Categories:

Social Science | Archaeology | History | Ancient | Rome

Series: Historia - Einzelschriften

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Description: This book explores how Roman ideas about human behaviour and historiography affected the ways in which the Romans wrote about their past. The first of the book's three chapters considers Roman views concerning human behaviour and the impact that these had on the traditions of Rome's past.

Brief description: James H. Richardson is Lecturer in Classics at Massey University.

Review Quotes: "...ein gut lesbares, klar formuliertes Buch [...], das reich an Argumenten und klaren Positionen ist. Allein deswegen kann es fur zukunftige Forschungen zur romischen Historiographie, zum romischen Geschichtsbewusstsein wie auch zur fruhen romischen Geschichte als anregend gelten.""Anyone interested in early Roman history or historiography will want to engage with this book.""James H. Richardson hat mit dieser uberarbeiteten Version seiner 2004 approbierten Dissertation ein sehr gutes, ja hervorragendes Buch vorgelegt, das sich nicht nur durch eine souverane Beherrschung der antiken Quellen sowie eine solide Kenntnis der einschlagigen modernen Sekundarliteratur auszeichnet, sondern vor allem durch eine ideenreiche und wahrhaft innovative Betrachtungsweise der literarischen Uberlieferung besticht.""The Fabii and the Gauls is an important contribution to the field of Roman Republican history and opens up promising new lines of inquiry into the intersection between Romans gens and Roman historiography. It will prove fruitful reading for scholars and students of all levels.""The book presents an innovatory insight to the ancient understanding of history [...] due to the originality of the author's approach, 'The Fabii and Gauls' will certainly occupy the place in the canon of the literature on Roman historiography."

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