Livy's Written Rome. - JAEGER, M.,
KORTE INHOUD
The book's 'concern is with Livy's 'representation of space, monuments, and memory' and with 'the 'Ab Urbe Condita' as a spatial entity, a monument, and a lengthy act of remembering'. These interests are pursued in an introductory chapter, which discusses Livy's history as a 'monumentum', and four seperate studies of individual episodes. (...) J.'s longest and perhaps most ambitious study is a reinterpretation of Livy's notorious treatment of the trials of the Scipios. In J.'s view the introduction of variant accounts (...) is not to be seen as his bowing to an unpalatable historiographical imperative, but Livy's embracing features of the historical record which allow him to advance a broader and more coherent interpretation of Scipio Africanus. Livy welcomes the uncertainty introduced by these variants because they draw attention to an historical figure who transcends any normal historical treatment. (...) This is a novel and challenging interpretation. (...) It is not possible in such a short review to resp...
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2000Uitgever: University of Michigan Press205 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0472107895ISBN-13: 9780472107896Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Ann Arbor, 2000. XII,205p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: JAEGER, M.,] [Uitgever: University of Michigan Press] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: Livy's Written Rome.]
