Reading by example: Valerius Maximus and the historiography of exempla:

"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 soc...

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Weitere Verfasser: Murray, Jeffrey 1984- (HerausgeberIn), Wardle, David (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Historiography of Rome and its empire volume 11
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:"We, the editors, are especially grateful to our colleagues at the University of Cape Town for their encouragement and advice not only in the production of this book, but also for their help in organising "Valerius Maximus: 25 Years After Bloomer", the conference from which many of the papers in this volume arise." - Acknowledgments
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XI, 352 Seiten)
ISBN:9789004499423
DOI:10.1163/9789004499423

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