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 is by a distinguished international cast of scholars. It 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. 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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