Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia and the Roman Biographical Tradition

2021 ◽  
pp. 287-315
Keyword(s):  
Biographical Tradition ◽  
Valerius Maximus

Vis and Seruitus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Julius Caesar ◽  
The Way ◽  
Valerius Maximus

This chapter examines the representation of oratory in chapter 8.9 Quanta Vis Sit Eloquentiae: ‘How Great is the Force of Eloquence’, of Valerius Maximus’ Facta et Dicta Memorabilia. While Valerius’ text is frequently used as a source of fragments of Republican oratory, this chapter argues that readers need to be acutely aware of the way that these extracts are framed in the structure of the wider chapter, as Valerius is certainly an author with his own, distinctive ideas. This is evidenced by the fact that traditional exemplary models of oratory such as Cicero and Demosthenes are ignored in 8.9. Valerius instead creates a dark vision of Republican oratory that links eloquence inextricably to the loss of freedom and the development of tyranny and despair under Julius Caesar and his heirs.

When did Valerius Maximus write the Dicta et Facta Memorabilia ?

Antichthon ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Bellemore
Keyword(s):  
General Terms ◽  
Valerius Maximus

There can be no doubt that Valerius Maximus completed the Dicta et Facta Memorabilia during the reign of Tiberius (A.D. 14-37), although he refers to this emperor only in general terms, as ‘Caesar’, for example, in the preface to the work or, more usually, as princeps. Despite the fact that Tiberius is not named as such, there are references that note his status as ruler of Rome. First, it is made clear by Valerius that Augustus is dead, and, in addition, there are two specific exempla that show that Tiberius is the current princeps.

scholarly journals Marie de l’Incarnation d’après Jean-Daniel Lafond : l’amour d’une sainte contre la barbarie actuelle

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-197
Author(s):  
Amandine Bonesso
Keyword(s):  
Film Maker ◽  
The Future ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
Biographical Tradition

Abstract The contribution examines the documentary Folle de Dieu (2008) and the play Marie de l'Incarnation ou La déraison d'amour (2009), Jean-Daniel Lafond’s adaptations of Marie de l’Incarnation’s (1599-1672) autobiographical texts. The study demonstrates that the two works, the last in a long biographical tradition, construe the nun’s life as a humanitarian model through the theme of love. In this manner, the film-maker encourages the current society not to give way to the bellicose violence of the last century and to rethink the future as a possible happiness.

Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus

Phoenix ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 58 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
C. Robert Phillips ◽  
Hans-Friedrich Mueller
Keyword(s):  
Roman Religion ◽  
Valerius Maximus
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