Valerius Maximus & the rhetoric of the new nobility / W. Martin Bloomer
1992, First Edition. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #389013
ISBN: 0807820474
Physical description: vi, 287 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-268) and indexes. Contents: Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Audience and design -- The proem and Valerius' audience -- The organization of the collection -- The process of arrangement -- Part III: Sources and reading -- Reading, writing, and "originality," -- Margins of reading: the individual sources -- Conclusions -- Valerian historiography: the case of the civil wars -- Valerius' explicit judgments -- Valerian overviews -- Chapters of civil strife -- Part V: The fallen restored and the republic's restorers -- The opponents of Julius Caesar -- The caesars -- Part VI: Valerian rhetoric and ideology -- Diction -- Word order -- Phrasing and colometry -- Figuration.
Subjects: Valerius Maximus. Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX. Valerius Maximus.
Valerius Maximus.
Valerius Maximus. Didactic literature, Latin History and criticism. Authors and readers Rome. Exempla in literature. Rhetoric, Ancient.
Nobility Rome. Orators Rome ; Biography. Rhetoric, Ancient History and criticism. Oratory, Ancient History and criticism. Authors and readers Italy Rome.
Nobility Rome. Rhetoric, Ancient. Didactic literature, Latin History and criticism.
Exempla in literature.
Nobility Rome. Rhetoric, Ancient. Littérature didactique latine Histoire et critique. Écrivains et lecteurs Rome. Exempla dans la littérature.
Rhétorique ancienne.
Authors and readers.
Didactic literature, Latin.
Exempla in literature.
Historiography. Nobility.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
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