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Once regarded primarily as a repository of historical anecdotes, Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia is now increasingly recognised as a carefully constructed reflection on Rome’s past, its moral values, and its cultural memory. Building on recent developments in Valerian scholarship, this volume offers new readings of the work’s literary, historiographical, ethical, and intellectual dimensions. Its contributions examine compositional strategies, exemplary figures, social and political values, and patterns of reception, revealing the Facta et dicta memorabilia as a central text for understanding how Romans interpreted the past and transformed historical memory into a medium of ethical and political reflection.
Price: $151.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004777675
Format: Hardcover
Heiko Westphal (PhD 2018, University of Western Australia) is an External Researcher at the University of Fribourg. He specialises in the literature, history, and culture of the late Roman Republic and early Empire and is currently preparing a commentary on Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, Book 4.
Simon Lentzsch is Junior Professor of Ancient History at the University of Greifswald. His research focusses on the history of the Roman Republic and early Empire, Roman memory culture, Roman military history, and the history of the Western Greeks, particularly in Massalia and southern Gaul.
Tanja Itgenshorst is Full Professor of Ancient History at the University of Fribourg. Her research interests include the Roman Republic and the early Principate (monograph: Tota illa pompa, 2005), Archaic Greece (monograph: Denker und Gemeinschaft, 2014), ancient elites, and the history of classical scholarship.
Contributors are: Carson Bay, Henriette van der Blom, Estelle Berlaire Gues, W. Martin Bloomer, Simon Cahanier, Scott DiGiulio, Tegan Gleeson, Tanja Itgenshorst, Andreas Klingenberg, Isabel Köster, Jan-Markus Kötter, Rebecca Langlands, Sarah J. Lawrence, Simon Lentzsch, E.V. Mulhearn Barnes, Jeffrey Murray, Mathias Nicolleau, Viola Periti, Matthew B. Roller, Niall W. Slater, Elisabeth L. Slingsby, David Wardle, Heiko Westphal.
Simon Lentzsch is Junior Professor of Ancient History at the University of Greifswald. His research focusses on the history of the Roman Republic and early Empire, Roman memory culture, Roman military history, and the history of the Western Greeks, particularly in Massalia and southern Gaul.
Tanja Itgenshorst is Full Professor of Ancient History at the University of Fribourg. Her research interests include the Roman Republic and the early Principate (monograph: Tota illa pompa, 2005), Archaic Greece (monograph: Denker und Gemeinschaft, 2014), ancient elites, and the history of classical scholarship.
Contributors are: Carson Bay, Henriette van der Blom, Estelle Berlaire Gues, W. Martin Bloomer, Simon Cahanier, Scott DiGiulio, Tegan Gleeson, Tanja Itgenshorst, Andreas Klingenberg, Isabel Köster, Jan-Markus Kötter, Rebecca Langlands, Sarah J. Lawrence, Simon Lentzsch, E.V. Mulhearn Barnes, Jeffrey Murray, Mathias Nicolleau, Viola Periti, Matthew B. Roller, Niall W. Slater, Elisabeth L. Slingsby, David Wardle, Heiko Westphal.