Morality in the Interpretation of the Past in Latin Historiography

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Agustín Moreno

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This paper deals with some main aspects of Latin historiography that have been discussed in the last past decades. In the first part, it presents a state of the art on the subject of veracity and the importance of rhetoric in the historians’ narratives. In the second part, it analyzes the role of morality in the interpretation of the facts that those narratives present.

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