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LITTERATVRA CLASSICA
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 Ars historica
Historical Thread
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Latin historiography texts
Historiography as a genre is one of the assets of Latin Literature. Started as "annales maximi" (annual historical data written down on wooden plates and kept at the Roman Tabularium archive), made into resumes by the so called Annalists, historiography developed into a full grown literature genre through the works of Cornelius Nepos, Sallustius, Livius, Tacitus and others. Nepos was the first to write a historical report of Rome and Italy and Livius' colossal overall work of his lifetime "Ab Urbe Condita" (From the Foundation of the City onwards) covers the history of Rome from the dark legendary times of Romulus until his contempary times. Tacitus is known for his acurate way of recording history and his source research. Nonetheless, Roman historiography cannot be seen as objective, although Tacitus states in the introduction of his "Annales" that he writes history sine ira et studio (without anger and favoritism). All Roman historiographers belonged to certain parties/factions within the Roman society and they wrote their works from that point of view.
This thread is meant for posting Latin historical texts, comments and textcriticism and, of course, translation.
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Somnium Scipionis- M. Tulli Ciceronis (* Tanaquil Sergius, Jan 12, 2005 - 08:27 ) Livius: the Punic Wars (* Tanaquil Sergius, Nov 5, 2004 - 09:20 ) Livius: life, time and work of Livy~~general information (* Tanaquil Sergius, Nov 2, 2004 - 12:54 ) Nepos, Hannibal (* Tanaquil Sergius, Oct 7, 2004 - 09:08 ) Nepos, Cato (* Tanaquil Sergius, Oct 7, 2004 - 08:48 ) Nepos, Atticus (* Tanaquil Sergius, Oct 7, 2004 - 08:46 ) Lewis & Short (* Aulus Sergius, Aug 27, 2003 - 23:24 ) middle and middle (* Nantonos Aedui, Aug 27, 2003 - 14:31 ) Meditullio.... (* Aulus Sergius, Aug 26, 2003 - 23:08 ) golden ass (bad english version) (* Nantonos Aedui, Aug 26, 2003 - 04:15 ) The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses, by Lucius Apuleius (* Nantonos Aedui, Aug 26, 2003 - 03:25 )|
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