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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Origins of Roman Historiography
• Greek antecedents
• Sources of the Roman past
• Rome’s first historians
• The Latin annalists
• Cicero’s view of history
• History in the late Republic
• Sallust
• Life and works
• The Conspiracy of Catiline
• The Jugurthine War
• The Histories
• Style and method in Sallust
• Livy
• Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City)
• Livy’s Preface
• Livy’s literary art
• Livy’s historical method
• Livy and Augustus
• Livy as historian
• Tacitus
• Life and career
• Historical writings
• Germania
• Historiae
• Annales
• The historian’s method
• The historian as moralist
• Political analysis
• The historian as psychologist
• The historian as literary artist
• Conclusion
• Ammianus Marcellinus
• Life and works
• Ammianus’ historical method
• Political and religious attitudes
• The literary art of Ammianus
• Conclusion
• Roman Biography
• Greek antecedents of Roman biography
• Cornelius Nepos’ Lives of Famous Men
• Tacitus’ Agricola
• Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus Lives of the Twelve Caesars
• Life and works
• Biography versus history
• Conclusion
• Historia Augusta
• The problems with the Historia Augusta
• What is the Historia Augusta?
• The Historia Augusta as an historical source
• Autobiography at Rome
• Greek antecedents
• Hypomnema and Commentarius
• C. Julius Caesar’s Commentarii
• Life and works
• Gallic War
• Civil War
• The nature of Caesar’s Commentarii
• Conclusion
• The autobiographies of Augustus
• De vita sua (Autobiography of Augustus)
• Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Achievements of the Deified Augustus )
• Later imperial autobiography
• Historical Writing at Rome
• The forms of Roman history
• The art of writing history
• The craft of history
• Senators as historians
• Censorship and the suppression of history
• The function of history
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 1 Origins of Roman historiography
• 2 Sallust
• 3 Livy
• 4 Tacitus
• 5 Ammianus Marcellinus
• 6 Roman biography
• Further Reading
• Translations
• General books
• Origins of Roman historiography
• Sallust
• Livy
• Tacitus
• Ammianus Marcellinus
• Biography
• Cornelius Nepos
• Suetonius
• Augustan history
• Autobiography
• Index