Commenting on the Past: Essays in Honor of Christina Shuttleworth Kraus

In seeking to honor this extensive and varied body of work, the editors invited contributions from scholars reflecting Professor Kraus’s range. The resulting volume is divided into four sections: Roman historians (papers on Caesar, Livy, and Tacitus), prose style (Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Polybius, and Seneca), intertextuality (Sallust, Virgil, Livy, Tacitus, Augustine), and commentaries and reception (Tacitism, G. E. Gierig, commentaries on Vitruvius, and George Bernard Shaw).

In addition to their thematic unity, the papers are brought together both by cross-references and by the editors’ introduction, which highlights the interconnections among the individual contributions. The introduction also provides summarizes of the essays.