Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla

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  • Release Date : 2021-12-16
  • Publisher : Historiography of Rome and Its
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 352
  • ISBN 13 : 9789004499409
  • File Size : 10,10 MB
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Book Description: From footnote-fodder to intellectual: Valerius Maximus, a generally under-appreciated minor author of the early first century AD emerges as a holder of distinct views on Rome's dynasty, their world, on how to behave within that world, and as an influencer of later thought both pagan and Christian.

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