Ammianus Marcellinus And The Anger Of Julian
The purpose of this study then is to explore the way in which anger was used to strengthen and validate the portrait of Julian in the narrative history of Ammianus Marcellinus.
Abbreviated histories : the case of the Epitome de Caesaribus (AD c. 395)
The dissertation offers a critical analysis of the Epitome de Caesaribus, a fourth-century Latin series on the lives of the emperors from Augustus to Theodosius (c. AD 395)
Robbers and Soldiers: Criminality and Roman Army in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
This paper aims at discussing the relationship between ancient robbers and Roman army in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. As Apuleius’ Metamorphoses has a great deal of information about banditry, deserters and ex-soldiers that can be explored in different ways, I suggest that this ancient author can provide us the possibility to rethink some historiographical approaches used to study the Roman plebs.
Destructive state interest and panhellenism in Thucydides
Thucydides in his text about the war between Athens and Sparta derides individuals, either members of a community or states in an international system, acting to increase their own power at the expense of others and promotes the same individuals to act in ways that support the community.
The Closure of Herodotus' Histories
On the other hand, during the past five or six decades a number of observations have accumulated to suggest that the ending of the Histories presents a paradox: While the book is open-ended as a strictly historical narrative, as a work of archaic art it is perfectly and unambiguously closed.
Hannibal the cannibal? Polybius on Barcid atrocities
Polybius includes the story of the cannibalistic plan in his excursus (aristeia) on Hannibal to illustrate the cruel nature of one of the Carthaginian general’s companions, a certain Hannibal Monomachos.
Memory and Ancient Greece
There are four crucial contexts in which networks of memories were constructed: first, objects and representations; second, places; third, ritual behaviour (and associated myths); and fourth, textual narratives. This article will illustrate with a few brief examples the ways that memory was constructed through each of those contexts.
What Is Ancient History?
What is Ancient History? Lecture by Ian Morris Given at Yale University on November 17, 2009 56 minutes Ian Morris, the Willard Professor…
Modern histories of ancient Greece: genealogies, contexts and eighteenth-century narrative historiography
Modern histories of ancient Greece: genealogies, contexts and eighteenth-century narrative historiography Giovanna Ceserani Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: February (2008) Abstract This essay is a…
Classical culture for a classical country: scholarship and the past in Vincenzo Cuoco
What is the place of the classical past and its study in Italy, a classical country whose roots reach back to antiquity, but has existed as an independent nation only since 1860?