About this Book

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Map of the principal monuments and sites discussed in this book -- Introduction -- 0.1 Why This Book? -- 0.2 An Example of a Roman Exemplum -- 0.3 A General Model of Roman Exemplarity -- 0.3.1 Action -- 0.3.2 Evaluation -- 0.3.3 Commemoration -- 0.3.4 Norm Setting -- 0.4 Supplemental Comments on the Model -- 0.5 Three Cultural Dimensions of Roman Exemplarity -- 0.5.1 The Rhetorical Dimension -- 0.5.2 The Moral or Ethical Dimension -- 0.5.3 The Historiographical Dimension -- 0.6 This Book's Contribution -- 0.7 Plan of This Book -- Chapter 1 Horatius Cocles -- 1.1 Introduction: Horatius as Exemplary Exemplum -- 1.2 Commemorating the Great Deed: Horatius' Monuments -- 1.2.1 The "Path of Cocles"--1.2.2 The Pons Sublicius -- 1.2.3 Wound to the Hip or Leg -- 1.2.4 Cognomen and Eye -- 1.2.5 Medallion -- 1.2.6 Statue -- 1.3 Normative Horatius: Standard-Setting and Imitation -- 1.4 Rhetorical and Moral Dynamics of the Horatius Exemplum -- Chapter 2 Cloelia -- 2.1 Introduction: Cloelia as Imitator of Horatius -- 2.2 On Timelessness: Monumental Encounters between Past and Present -- 2.3 The "Manly Maiden" -- 2.4 Cloelia's Statue -- 2.5 Judging Morals, Typicality, and Uniqueness across Time -- Chapter 3 Appius Claudius Caecus -- 3.1 Introduction: Appius "Live" -- 3.2 Livy's Appius: Exemplary Performance in artes urbanae -- 3.3 Appius' Monuments: Deceptive, Contradictory, and Double-Edged -- 3.3.1 Via Appia, Aqua Appia -- 3.3.2 Temple of Bellona -- 3.3.3 Elogium from the Forum Augustum -- 3.3.4 Blindness and Cognomen -- 3.3.5 Speech Against Peace with Pyrrhus -- 3.4 Appius and His Descendants: Case Studies in Familial Exemplarity -- 3.5 One Hundred Hands, for Better or Worse