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Publication Publication Caesar and the Bellum Alexandrinum: An Analysis of Style, Narrative Technique, and the Reception of Greek Historiography(2014-09-23) Damon, CynthiaReview of Caesar and the Bellum Alexandrinum: An Analysis of Style, Narrative Technique, and the Reception of Greek Historiography by Jan Felix Gaertner, Bianca Hausburg.Publication Poem Division, Paired Poems, and Amores 2.9 and 3.11(1990) Damon, CynthiaPublication Suetonius the Ventriloquist(2014-01-01) Damon, CynthiaThis chapter surveys Suetonius’ prose style, particularly his tendency to include the emperors’ own words in verbatim quotation. The metaphor of the ‘ventriloquist’ is apt for Suetonius, who frequently uses his biographical subject’s own language to display their character. This method is in direct contrast with the custom of Roman historians, especially Tacitus, who rewrites the original material in his sources, including speeches, to fit with the overall tone and texture of his own history. Suetonius permits the diction and rhythm of other writers to intrude in his biographies, but he does this for useful effect, and is not devoid of his own signatures of style and authorial voice. Suetonius’ prose is redeemed as more artful than in previous estimations, which have often found it to be plain and monotonous.Publication Publication Pliny's Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History(2010-01-01) Damon, CynthiaReview of Pliny's Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History by Aude Doody.Publication Publication Frontinus and the Curae of the Curator Aquarum(2006-01-15) Damon, CynthiaReview of Michael Peachin, Frontinus and the curae of the curator aquarum. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, Bd. 39. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004. Pp. ix, 197. ISBN 3-515-08638-6. At the time of publication, author Cynthia Damon was affiliated with Amherst College. Currently, she is a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania.Publication From Source to Sermo: Narrative Technique in Livy 34.54.4-8(1997) Damon, CynthiaPublication The Historian's Presence, or, There and Back Again(2010-01-01) Damon, CynthiaThis chapter is an investigation of a Tacitean metaphor for historiography and its implications for the historian's role in history. The metaphor of the historian's physical proximity to his subject matter, which is found in the Annals 4 digression contrasting Tacitus's work with that of historians of earlier periods, is an offshoot of the enargeia that often enlivens a narrative. It is also one of the many connections between this digression and both Tacitus's account of the trial of the historian Cremutius Cordus (4.34-35) and what he suggests about his own work as historian.