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SUMMARY:Cutting Rome Down To Size
DTSTART:20180130T230000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Three-quarters of the monumental work of the Roman histori
 an Livy (59 B.C.-A.D.17) is lost. The single most important source to 
 enable us to reconstruct the contents of the missing volumes is a summ
 ary known as the "Periochae," composed in (probably) the 4th century A
 .D. This summary\, reducing each volume of Livy to a single paragraph\
 , appears on its surface a mechanical exercise. However\, this lecture
  will show that a comparison of the "Periochae" of the surviving books
  with Livy's original work reveals many subtle alterations and distort
 ions\, which reflect a distinctive historical outlook on the part of t
 he summarizer. Armed with this knowledge of the summarizer's technique
 s\, we gain a clearer picture of the missing books for which the "Peri
 ochae" provides us with our primary evidence\, and can refine our know
 ledge of the events of Roman history that Livy described in the books 
 now lost.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
CONTACT:isaw@nyu.edu
CLASS:PUBLIC
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