Velleius Paterculus: Making History

Edited by Eleanor Cowan. Contributers: Edward Bispham, W. Martin Bloomer, Eleanor Cowan, Maria Elefante, Tom Hillard, Barbara Levick, John Alexander Lobur, John Marincola, Victoria Pagán, Christopher Pelling, Luke Pitcher, John Rich, Ulrich Schmitzer, Robin Seager, Catherine Steel, Kathryn Welch and T. P. Wiseman. This collection of 17 papers gives a wide-ranging re-examination of Velleius' work, of its place within, and contribution to, Roman historiography and the intellectual history of the early Principate. Velleius Paterculus' short work occupies a unique position in Roman historiography. It is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins. In a period from which no other contemporary historical narrative survives in more than meagre fragments, Velleius' work - written under the emperor Tiberius - offers a critical counter to the later accounts of Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. Not only does it give a different view of Tiberius, but it saw continuity where later authors saw only a radical change which destroyed the Republic and put monarchy in its place. - Contents: Eleanor Cowan: Introduction. - Barbara Levick: Velleius Paterculus as Senator. A dream with footnotes. - Maria Elefante: A page in the history of Campania. - Edward Bispham: Velleius Paterculus and his Italian background. - Martin Bloomer: Transit admiratio: memoria, invidia, and the historian. - John Rich: Velleius' history: genre and models. - John Marincola: Explanatory strategies in Velleius. - Victoria Pagán: Velleius 2.30.6 and Tacitus, Histories 4.81: allusion and intertext. - Christopher Pelling: Velleius and biography: the case of Julius Caesar. - Ulrich Schmitzer: Roman values in Velleius. - John Lobur: Resuscitating a text: Velleius’ history as cultural evidence. - Tom Hillard: Velleius 2.124.2 and the reluctant princeps. - Clemence Schultze: "Dying with their boots on": ambivalence in Velleius’ depiction of republican notables. - Luke Pitcher: The Stones of Blood. Family, Monumentality, and Memory in Velleius’ Second Century. - Catherine Steel: Heroism and Despair in Velleius Paterculus' narrative of the Republic. - T. P. Wiseman: Velleius and the Games. - Robin Seager: Velleius and Pompey: ambiguities and contradictions. - Kathryn Welch: Velleius Paterculus’ portrait of Livia. - Eleanor Cowan: Velleius and the princeps Romani nominis. - XIII,378 Seiten, gebunden (The Classical Press of Wales 2011) textsauber, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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