CLA 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pontifex Maximus, Annales Maximi, Roman Historiography
27 Sep 2017
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Lecture 2 roman written sources for republic: roman historiography, definition and characteristics, historiography: study of writing of history; study of historical tradition, historicity: historical accuracy, characteristics of roman historiography, didactic; propagandistic; rhetorical (argumentative) and. Romanocentric. : types of sources: extant (survive); or they are preserved in secondary citations, or in epitomes (summaries) by scholiasts (late antique clerics/scholars who copied out and emended texts), genres (types) of roman historiography: annalistic and. Antiquarian: types of sources: extant (survive); or they are preserved in secondary citations, or in epitomes (summaries) by scholiasts (late antique clerics/scholars who copied out and emended texts). Pontifex maximus: the head of the principal college of priests, the pontiffs. Ethnography: archeology: surviving monuments, archival research inscriptions, linguistics: place names. *4th-c ad summary of contents of entire work: dionysius of halicarnassus contemporary of livy 60 bc after 7 bc, greek historian and teacher of rhetoric (persuasive writing, argumentation, wrote (in greek) annalistic history during reign of the emperor.
