The Fabii and the Gauls

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The Fabii and the Gauls

Studies in historical thought and historiography in Republican Rome

Richardson, James H.
from the series Historia – Einzelschriften, volume 222
Published by Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012

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Abstract

This e-book explores how Roman ideas about human behaviour and historiography affected the ways in which the Romans wrote about their past. The first of the e-book's three chapters considers Roman views concerning human behaviour and the impact that these had on the traditions of Rome's past. The second looks at the presentation of the gens Fabia in the literary evidence and at the ways individual Fabii were said to have behaved. The final chapter examines the evidence for the Gallic sack of Rome and considers the influence that Greek historical traditions had on Rome's own traditions. Numerous members of the gens Fabia were said to have acted in a similar manner and even to have done the same things, while the tradition of the Gallic sack bears a striking resemblance to the tradition of the Persian sack of Athens. Scholarship usually maintains that individual historians such as Fabius Pictor were responsible for devising these sorts of parallels, and that they did so for their own literary and political purposes. The principal argument put forward here is that they are the inevitable product of Roman historical thought, and so need not be attributed to any one historian.

Author information

James H. Richardson 
James H. Richardson is Lecturer in Classics at Massey University.

Keywords

Geschichte | Altertumswissenschaften | Gallier

Details

The Fabii and the Gauls

Franz Steiner Verlag

186 Pages

ISBN 978-3-515-10040-3 (Print)

ISBN 978-3-515-10154-7 (eBook)

Copyright year: 2012

First published: 10.09.2012

https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515101547

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