Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy on the Horatii and the Curiatii

Bibliographic Data

ID23716000
AuthorsS P Oakley (corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages118-138
Publication date2010-04-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueAncient historiography and its contexts (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558681.003.0008
OpenAlexW2501944309
ISBN9780199558681
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited198

This chapter compares the accounts of the triple combat of the Horatii in the histories of Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in order to cast light on the style and historiographical techniques of these two authors and also their debt to earlier historians. Matters discussed include both authors' use of the external audience provided by the spectators of the combat, Dionysius's debt to Herodotus and Thucydides, his self-consciously tragic writing, his obsession with akribeia, Livy's structuring of this part of his first book, and his style.

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