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Drawing on a range of critical approaches, Miles considers Livy's stance as a historian, the ways in which he reworked his sources, and his interpretation of such historical phenomena as recurrence, continuity, and chance. Miles focuses on the foundation stories with which Livy begins his account, detecting in Livy's rendition certain original conceptions of historical time, including the suggestion that Roman identity and greatness might be preserved indefinitely through successive reenactments of a historical cycle. Miles pays particular attention to two stories - those of the abduction of the Sabine women and of Romulus and Remus - showing how Livy's versions of these traditional narratives, far from leading to a simplistic moral, address unresolved political issues of his day. According to Miles, Livy shows an unusually tenacious willingness to confront dilemmas in historiography and Roman ideology which were commonly ignored or suppressed by both his predecessors and his contemporaries.
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- Title Livy
- Author Gary B. Miles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca
- Date 1995-07-13
- ISBN 9780801430602 / 0801430607
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.35 x 6.29 x 0.88 in (23.75 x 15.98 x 2.24 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Italy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94043821
- Dewey Decimal Code 937
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