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III. Livy as Literary Artist
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2016
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Critics nowadays are reluctant to separate historian and writer in any schematic way, but such an approach is justified in the case of Roman rhetorical historiography One fundamental cause of the lack of rigour amongst many Roman historians in ascertaining the truth is the first-century notion that ‘history’ is a description of the manner of writing rather than of scrupulousness of research. L. Ferrero reminds us that when Cicero describes history as ‘opus . . . unum hoc oratorium maxime’ he is claiming for the orator a general competence in eloquence, written no less than spoken, which is his professional qualification: ‘physica ista ipsa et mathematica et quae paulo ante ceterarum artium propria posuisti, scientiae sunt eorum qui illa profitentur; illustrari autem oratione si quis istas ipsas artes velit, ad oratoris ei confugiendum est facultatem.’ The orator has been trained to give public expression to all kinds of’knowledge, including historical analysis. Livy may not have practised at the bar, but he is an orator in this theoretical sense, trained in the science of words.
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