Literary Texts and the Roman Historian

by David Stone Potter

Literary Texts and the Roman Historian looks at literary texts from the Roman Empire which depict actual events. It examines the ways in which these texts were created, disseminated and read.
Beside covering the major Roman historical authors such as Livy and Tacitus, he also considers the contributions of authors in other genres
* Cicero
* Lucian
* Aulus Gellius.
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian provides an accessible and concise introduction to the complexities of Roman historiography.

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

David Potter is the author of Constantine the Emperor and The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium. He is the Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan.

Reviews

[Jonathan]

Not recommended for a beginning undergraduate, but rather for a grad student or more advanced looking to delve deeper into the problems of Greek and Latin historiography. Good intro to the problems, questions, sources, and contemporary trends in scholarship (late 1990s).