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Conspiracy narratives in Roman history

Examines the narrative strategies that five historians used to disclose events.
Print Book, English, 2005
University of Texas Press, Austin, Tex., 2005
336 pages ; 23 cm
9780292705616, 0292705611
962438963
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Betrayed Conspiracies 1. Sallust: The Catilinarian Conspiracy 2. Livy: The Bacchanalian Affair 3. Tacitus: The Pisonian Conspiracy Part II. Successful Conspiracies 4. Josephus: The Assassination of Caligula 5. Appian: The Assassination of Julius Caesar Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Index Locorum