@inbook{5685cba19b13479eb3199c374fc04936,
title = "And Now for Something Completely Different …",
abstract = "Given the preponderance of Roman exempla in the Facta et dicta memorabilia, it is natural that most scholarly attention has been focused on the internal material that makes up roughly two thirds of the total number of exempla. The external exempla, however, have not been entirely neglected and a num-ber of scholars have wondered about the function and themes of this mate-rial. Scholarship in this area has tended to fall into three main schools of thought: firstly, Valerius is if not actually {\textquotedblleft}racist{\textquotedblright}, given the difficulties of using that term in a Roman context, then certainly bigoted, and that he includes the external material partly to air his views.",
author = "Sarah Lawrence",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1163/9789004499423\_004",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789004499423",
series = "Historiography of Rome and Its Empire",
publisher = "Koninklijke Brill NV",
number = "11",
pages = "47--72",
editor = "Jeffrey Murray and David Wardle",
booktitle = "Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla",
edition = "1",
}