Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography

Aske Damtoft Poulsen graduated from Lund University in 2018 with a thesis on Accounts of Northern Barbarians in Tacitus’ Annales. He is currently Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellow at Bristol University with a project on peace and power in the Roman Principate.Arne Jönsson is professor emeritus in Latin at Lund University. He has specialised in historical-philological research with editions and studies on St. Birgitta of Sweden, Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, Sophia Elisabet Brenner, and the Linnaeus disciple Daniel Rolander.Contributors are: Rhiannon Ash, Roberto Cristofoli, Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Kyle Khellaf, Christopher B. Krebs, Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, Anne-Marie Leander Touati, Rachel Lilley Love, Ulrike Roth, Kai Ruffing & Johan Vekselius.

• PrefaceNotes on ContributorsList of FiguresReferences and AbbreviationsHistoriography of Rome and Its Empire SeriesCarsten H. Lange and Jesper M. MadsenIntroduction: Usages of the Past in Roman HistoriographyAske Damtoft PoulsenPart 1: Coming to Terms with the Principate1 Velleius Paterculus and the Battle of ActiumRoberto Cristofoli2 In Short, the Republic: Florus and the (Re)Written RepublicRachel Lilley Love3 Principatus ac Libertas!? Tacitus, the Past and the Principate of TrajanKai RuffingPart 2: Intertextuality and Intratextuality4 “Making History”: Constructive Wonder (aka Quellenforschung) and the Composition of Caesar’s Gallic War (Thanks to Labienus and Polybius)Christopher B. Krebs5 When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes … Livy (and Polybius) on the Gallic Sack of RomeUlrike Roth6 Livy’s Faliscan SchoolmasterChristina Shuttleworth Kraus7 From Thrasea Paetus to Calgacus – or Was It the Other Way Around? An Example of Tacitean IntratextualityAske Damtoft PoulsenPart 3: The Frontiers of Historiography8 The Staging of Death: Tacitus’ Agrippina the Younger and the Dramatic TurnRhiannon Ash9 Tiberius and Tears: Grief and GenreJohan Vekselius10 Migration and Mobile Memory in the Roman Historical DigressionKyle Khellaf11 Epilogue: History in PompeiiAnne-Marie Leander TouatiIndex Nominum et Rerum

"a nice introduction to the different usages of the Roman past for the benefit of anyone interested in Romen historiography." Raf Praet BMCR 23.04.34