TY - JOUR
T1 - Setting the record straight
T2 - alternative documents of a protest in the Roman army of Egypt
AU - Judge, Edwin
N1 - Publisher version archived with the permission of the Editor, Ancient History : resources for Teachers, Macquarie Ancient History Association, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia. This copy is available for individual, non-commercial use. Permission to reprint/republish this version for other uses must be obtained from the publisher.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Documentation is the trade-mark of the twentieth-century historian. We take it for granted that we must be able to document points we make by reference to our sources. In a more particular sense we mean by 'documents' a certain type of source-material - the papers that belonged to the occasion itself, as distinct from the presentation of it in subsequent literary treatments. This corresponds to the distinction between primary and secondary sources. In the case of Roman history, we typically mean by 'documents' the coins, inscriptions and papyri that survive directly from the time, as distinct from the treatment of the history by ancient writers . By appealing to documents, we hope, we may replace the perspectives of the ancient historians by the more immediate record of what was actually said at the time.
It is not often in ancient history that we have the opportunity of comparing a historian's version with the ‘original'. Such a case is provided by the epigraphic copy preserved from Lugdunum (Lyons) of the speech of Claudius in the senate in AD 48, advocating the admission of Roman citizens of Gallic descent into that chamber.
AB - Documentation is the trade-mark of the twentieth-century historian. We take it for granted that we must be able to document points we make by reference to our sources. In a more particular sense we mean by 'documents' a certain type of source-material - the papers that belonged to the occasion itself, as distinct from the presentation of it in subsequent literary treatments. This corresponds to the distinction between primary and secondary sources. In the case of Roman history, we typically mean by 'documents' the coins, inscriptions and papyri that survive directly from the time, as distinct from the treatment of the history by ancient writers . By appealing to documents, we hope, we may replace the perspectives of the ancient historians by the more immediate record of what was actually said at the time.
It is not often in ancient history that we have the opportunity of comparing a historian's version with the ‘original'. Such a case is provided by the epigraphic copy preserved from Lugdunum (Lyons) of the speech of Claudius in the senate in AD 48, advocating the admission of Roman citizens of Gallic descent into that chamber.
M3 - Article
SN - 1032-3686
VL - 33
SP - 153
EP - 159
JO - Ancient history : resources for teachers
JF - Ancient history : resources for teachers
IS - 2
ER -