Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction(s) -- When tiny scraps cause new chapters of Latin literature to be written -- Roman historical writing in the age of the Elder Seneca -- Part I: Seneca the Elder's Historiae ab initio bello-rum civilium: Integrating New Discoveries with Old Knowledge -- A 'historic(al)' find from the library of Herculaneum: Seneca the Elder and the Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium in P.Herc. 1067 -- Un libro dell' Ab initio bellorum civilium di Seneca il vecchio e il fondo latino della biblioteca della Villa dei Papiri a Ercolano -- Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium: Exegetical Surveys on the Direct Trans-mission of Seneca the Elder's Historiographical Work -- Unde primum veritas retro abiit. Riflessioni sull'inizio delle Historiae di Seneca Padre -- Semina belli. Seneca il Vecchio e le cause delle guerre civili -- Looking for Seneca's Historiae in Suetonius' Life of Tiberius -- The Lost Histories of the Elder Seneca(1972) -- Bibliographical updates to Sussman's "The lost Histories of the Elder Seneca" (1972- 2019) -- Part II: Seneca's Historiae in Context: New Perspectives on Early-Imperial Roman Historiography -- Point and periodicity: the style of Velleius Paterculus and other Latin historians writing in the early Principate -- La place de S�en�eque le P�ere parmi les sources possibles des Annales 1-6 -- Seneca padre, Tacito e Germanico -- Seneca Padre e il 'canone dei tiranni' romani: una questione di famiglia? -- Seneca vs Seneca: generazioni e stili a confronto tra oratoria, filosofia e storiografia -- Di aetas in aetas: considerazioni sulla storiografia di Seneca Padre e Floro -- Appian, Cassius Dio and Seneca the Elder -- Appendix - Testimonia and Fragmenta from Seneca the Elder's Historiae -- Bibliographical References -- List of figures -- List of Tables -- Index of Passages.

Index of Papyri -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Inscriptions.

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