M. Ch. Scappaticcio (éd.), Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium

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Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (éd.), Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium. New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography, Berlin-Boston, 2020.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
425 pages
ISBN : 978-3-11-068585-5
129.95 €

Dear Colleagues,
We take the liberty to bringing to your notice the latest volume produced and edited within the project PLATINUM (Papyri and LAtin Texts: INsights and Updated Methodologies – ERC-StG 2014 no. 636983), based in University of Naples ‘Federico II', whose Principal Investigator is Prof.Dr. Maria Chiara Scappaticcio.
The volume Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium. New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography has been edited by PLATINUM's P. I. and published by De Gruyter. It collects studies on the newly discovered Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium by Seneca the Elder in a papyrus roll from Herculaneum (P.Herc. inv. 1067); further details are given below.
The book is published in Gold Open Access, so you can read it on the following link: https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/572144?language=en
Thanks for your attention and best regards to you all from,
the Team of the ERC-Project PLATINUM


M. C. Scappaticcio (ed.), Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium. New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography, De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2020, 425 pp., ISBN: 978-3-11-068585-5, 129.95 €

Contributors: Emanuele Berti, Timothy J. Cornell, Cynthia Damon, Olivier Devillers, Arturo De Vivo, Tiziano Dorandi, Giancarlo Mazzoli, Stephen P. Oakley, Valeria Piano, Antonio Pistellato, Chiara Renda, John W. Rich, Biagio Santorelli, Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Lewis A. Sussman


The long path which brought to this unexpected development started in 2014, when notes on that papyrus drafted by R. Marichal were discovered in his archive; and finished in 2017, when the first edition was published in the review Cronache Ercolanesi. PHerc. 1067 is the only extant direct witness to Seneca the Elder's Historiae.

The book consists of two complementary sections, each of which containing seven papers. These two sections express the two different but interlinked axes along which the contributions were developed. On one side, the focus is on the starting point of the debate, namely the discovery of the papyrus roll transmitting the Historiae of Seneca the Elder and how such a discovery can be integrated with prior knowledge about this historiographical work. On the other side, there is a broader view on early-imperial Roman historiography, to which the new perspectives opened by the rediscovery of Seneca the Elder's Historiae greatly contribute.

 

 

Source : https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/572144?language=en