Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dedication V
3. Preface V
4. Acknowledgements
5. Contents XV
6. Christina S. Kraus: Publications to Date XVII
7. Polybius and Livy’s Sentence Structure 1
8. Narrative Inconsistencies and Ethical Constructions in Livy Book 31 29
9. “I Want to Be Great Too – but How?” Alexander, Augustus, and Livy 43
10. There and Back Again: Structure and Crossing in Livy’s Third Decade 61
11. Livy on the Tiber Island: Writing Rome a Solo 77
12. Recapturing the Capitol: Yet More Livian Refoundations 93
13. Caesar’s Shrinking Lexicon 109
14. On Endings and Beginnings in Caesar’s Bellum civile 125
15. Cicero’s Caesarian Histories 143
16. Tacfarinine Disorder: Sallustian and Livian Color at Tacitus, Annals 3.20–1 157
17. Shadows of History: Sallustian Perspectives on Book 2 of Augustine’s Confessions 177
18. Camilla and the Guys 197
19. How Is Maecenas Like a Syllogism? Seneca on Style in the Moral Epistles 215
20. The divergent epistolary cultures of greece and rome 400 BCE–400 CE 231
21. The clades variana: literary commemoration of a roman military disaster 253
22. Tacitus for courtiers 265
23. Sex and empire: caesar and henry higgins 277
24. The silence of the frogs: an experiment with paratragedy 293
25. List of Contributors 293
26. General Index