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Virtus and Historical Writing
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This chapter briefly discusses the nature of historical writing in Rome, including its complex relationship with rhetoric and didactic purposes, and challenges some current views on these points. The central questions of this study are addressed: a) why was virtus so important to the Roman historians? and b) what role does political change play in the (re)definition of the concept of virtus and also in the development of its expression in practice? It also discusses how and why the Roman historians, who saw historiography as an account of the life and mores [cf. Livy, Praef. 9] of the Roman people through time, made morality a valid category for explaining their past, and why, therefore, the analysis of the concept of virtus through their narratives is a sound way of approaching Roman historical writing.
Title: Virtus and Historical Writing
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This chapter briefly discusses the nature of historical writing in Rome, including its complex relationship with rhetoric and didactic purposes, and challenges some current views on these points.
The central questions of this study are addressed: a) why was virtus so important to the Roman historians? and b) what role does political change play in the (re)definition of the concept of virtus and also in the development of its expression in practice? It also discusses how and why the Roman historians, who saw historiography as an account of the life and mores [cf.
Livy, Praef.
9] of the Roman people through time, made morality a valid category for explaining their past, and why, therefore, the analysis of the concept of virtus through their narratives is a sound way of approaching Roman historical writing.
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