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Title

The historian, L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi, and the Roman annalistic tradition / Gary Forsythe.

Author

Forsythe, Gary.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1994], ©1994.

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Description

xi, 552 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Piso Frugi, Lucius Calpurnius, approximately 182 B.C.-
• Historians > Rome > Biography
• Censors, Roman > Biography
• Consuls, Roman > Biography
• Praetors > Biography
• Rome > Historiography. > Republic, 510-30 B.C
• Rome > Historiography. > Kings, 753-510 B.C

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-530) and index.

Contents

1. Piso's Family and Political Career -- 2. Prolegomena to the History. I. Piso's Education. II. Date of the History's Composition. III. Language and Style. IV. Book Arrangement and Annalistic Form and Content. V. Piso and the Annales Maximi -- 3. Piso's First Book, The Regal Period. I. The Preface (F 1). II. Hercules and Italy (F 2). III. Trojan and Alban Antecedents (F's 3-6 and 33). IV. Romulus (F's 7-14). V. Numa Pompilius and Tullus Hostilius (F's 15-20). VI. The House of the Tarquins (F's 21-4) -- 4. Piso's Second and Third Books, The Early Republic. I. Establishment of the Republic (F's 25-8). II. The Plebeian Tribunite (F's 29-30). III. The Seditions of Sp. Cassius and Sp. Maelius (F's 47 and 31). IV. Veii, the Gauls, and Aftermath (F's 32-4). V. The Latin War (F 35). VI. The Samnite Wars (F's 36-8) -- 5. Piso's Later Books, The Middle Republic. I. Rome and Carthage (F's 39-42). II. Empire and its Consequences (F's 43-9) -- Appendix, Testimonia and Fragments.

ISBN

0819197424 (alk. paper)

LCCN

94034339

OCLC

• 31130983
• ocm31130983
• SCSB-14347067

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Columbia University Libraries