The resulting volume contains essays on Roman historians (Caesar, Livy, and Tacitus), prose style (Polybius, Cicero, Caesar, Livy, Seneca), intertextuality (Sallust, Virgil, Livy, Tacitus, Augustine), epistolography, reception (the Varronian disaster, Tacitism, George Bernard Shaw), and paratragedy.
In addition to their thematic unity, the papers are brought together both by cross-references and by the editors’ preface, which highlights the interconnections among the individual contributions. The preface also provides summaries of the essays.
Jane D. Chaplin, Middlebury College, Middlebury Vermont, USA; Irene Peirano Garrison, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA; Christopher Stray, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.