The Romans' devotion to their past pervades almost every aspect of their culture. But the clearest image of how the Romans wished to interpret their past is fou

Ronald Mellor demonstrates that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors as a literary, not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be evaluated in th

The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators

Although the relationship of Greco-Roman historians with their readerships has attracted much scholarly attention, classicists principally focus on individual h