Contested Triumphs: Politics, Pageantry, and Performance in Livy’s Republican Rome by Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger (review)
459 apart the components of a sentence to understand its meaning. It is difficult to recommend Stroup’s work wholeheartedly, since it does have some major omissions in its approach, which limits its value for the social and cultural historian. And curiously, at first glance this seems to be the market at which the book is primarily aimed. Nonetheless, I suspect Stroup’s monograph would better serve the interests of philologists working on Cicero (and to a more limited extent Catullus) and students of literary history of the Late Republic. For these, Stroup does have some valuable insights and interpretations that are well worth further consideration.
Form and Language in Livy's Triumph Notices
M ANY scholars have discussed the annalistic style of Livy, especially the way he and his predecessors developed and expanded the bare records of the Roman past in accordance with the principles of rhetorical historiography.' It has often been pointed out how marked a stylistic distinction there is between the historian's elaborate accounts and the curt, bald notices with which he begins and ends each consular year-elections, the inauguration of new magistrates, provincial and troop allotments, prodigies, and the like. And the conclusion is generally drawn that the notices in the plain manner faithfully reproduce the official Annales Maximi in style as well as in substance.2 However, students of Livy, preferring to concentrate on the rhetorically more interesting sections, have had little or nothing further to say about the stylistic features of the annual notices. Consideration of them from an artistic point of view has confined itself to explanations for their inclusion in the history. Reasons suggested are Livy's desire to give an impression of authenticity, or to establish an effective contrast with the more ornamental passages, or to show his love for the traditions of the Roman past.3 Yet it would seem that more might be said. Granted that the annual notices reflect
Industrial Relations in 1988
Undoubtedly, the election of the Hawke Labor Government in 1983 marked a turning point in Australian industrial relations. To a large extent industrial turbulence receded, helped along by global econ omic instability and the influence ofthe Prices and Incomes Accord between the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Council of Trade Union (ACTU). Arguably, the apparent success of the Accord owed something to a widespread concern within unions that the election of a Liberal-National Party government at the federal level would have resulted in a major pro gram of economic regulation, especially in relation to the institutions ofthe labour market. During 1988, despite an increasingly buoyant economy, the continuing influence of these economic and political conditions ensured that the level of industrial disputation remained subdued by historical stan dards, though those opposed to the nascent corporate state or centralised wage fixing may have been heartened by signs that wage restraint was fraying at the...