Author: Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through patterning he offers a distinctive interpretative framework in which successive reigns and individual emperors need to be read in a dovetailed way.
Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire
Author: Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through patterning he offers a distinctive interpretative framework in which successive reigns and individual emperors need to be read in a dovetailed way.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004516921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through patterning he offers a distinctive interpretative framework in which successive reigns and individual emperors need to be read in a dovetailed way.
Staging Power
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Digressions in Classical Historiography
Author: Mario Baumann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111320901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological narration. Such cases include lengthy geographical descriptions, prolepses or analepses, and authorial comments. Ancient historiographers rarely deign to interrupt their narration's main storyline with excursuses which are flagrantly disconnected from it. Instead, they often "coat" their digressions with distinctive patterns of their own thinking, thus rendering them ideological and thematic milestones within an entire work. Furthermore, digressions may constitute pivotal points in the very structure of ancient historical narratives, while ancient historians also use excursuses to establish a dialogue with their readers and to activate them in various ways. All these aspects of digressions in Greco-Roman historiography are studied in detail in the chapters of this volume.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111320901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological narration. Such cases include lengthy geographical descriptions, prolepses or analepses, and authorial comments. Ancient historiographers rarely deign to interrupt their narration's main storyline with excursuses which are flagrantly disconnected from it. Instead, they often "coat" their digressions with distinctive patterns of their own thinking, thus rendering them ideological and thematic milestones within an entire work. Furthermore, digressions may constitute pivotal points in the very structure of ancient historical narratives, while ancient historians also use excursuses to establish a dialogue with their readers and to activate them in various ways. All these aspects of digressions in Greco-Roman historiography are studied in detail in the chapters of this volume.
Herodian's History of His Times Or of the Roman Empire After Marcus
Author: Herodian
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Languages : en
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Herodian's History of His Own Times Or of the Roman Empire After Marcus
Author: Herodianus (Historicus.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans
Author: Adam M. Kemezis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107062721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book explores how Greek authors who witnessed sudden political change reacted by re-imagining the larger narrative of the Roman past.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107062721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book explores how Greek authors who witnessed sudden political change reacted by re-imagining the larger narrative of the Roman past.
Foreign Groups in Rome During the First Centuries of the Empire
Author: George La Piana
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Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Fictionality
Author: Zoltán Kanyó
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Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Commodus
Author: O. Hekster
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004502327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The emperor Commodus (AD 180-192) has commonly been portrayed as an insane madman, whose reign marked the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire. Indeed, the main point of criticism on his father, Marcus Aurelius, is that he appointed his son as his successor. Especially Commodus’ behaviour as a gladiator, and the way he represented himself with divine attributes (especially those of Hercules), are often used as evidence for the emperor’s presumed madness. However, this ‘political biography’ will apply modern interpretations of the spectacles in the arena, and of the imperial cult, to Commodus' reign. It will focus on the dissemination and reception of imperial images, and suggest that there was a method in Commodus’ madness.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004502327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The emperor Commodus (AD 180-192) has commonly been portrayed as an insane madman, whose reign marked the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire. Indeed, the main point of criticism on his father, Marcus Aurelius, is that he appointed his son as his successor. Especially Commodus’ behaviour as a gladiator, and the way he represented himself with divine attributes (especially those of Hercules), are often used as evidence for the emperor’s presumed madness. However, this ‘political biography’ will apply modern interpretations of the spectacles in the arena, and of the imperial cult, to Commodus' reign. It will focus on the dissemination and reception of imperial images, and suggest that there was a method in Commodus’ madness.
Rome and Its Empire, AD 193-284
Author: Olivier Hekster
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A discursive look at the key debates that evolved from this period of the Roman Empire.
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A discursive look at the key debates that evolved from this period of the Roman Empire.