Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered Historiae ab initio be... - 9783110685855

Seneca the Elder and His Rediscovered Historiae ab initio bellorum civiliumNew Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography\nAuthor(s): Maria Chiara Scappaticcio\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: De Gruyter, Germany\nImprint: De Gruyter\nISBN-13: 9783110685855, 978-3110685855\nSynopsis\nThe refreshed insights into early-imperial Roman historiography this book offers are linked to a recent discovery. \n\n In the spring of 2014, the binders of the archive of Robert Marichal were dusted off by the ERC funded project PLATINUM (ERC-StG 2014 n[tel] in response to Tiziano Dorandis recollections of a series of unpublished notes on Latin texts on papyrus. Among these was an in-progress edition of the Latin rolls from Herculaneum, together with Marichals intuition that one of them had to be ascribed to a certain Annaeus Seneca. PLATINUM followed the unpublished intuition by Robert Marichal as one path of investigation in its own research and work. Working on the Latin [url] 1067 led to conf.