Narratives of Roman Syria: a historiography of Syria as a province of Rome
Narratives of Roman Syria: a historiography of Syria as a province of Rome Lidewijde de Jong Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics: July (2007)…
Religion in Roman Historiography and Epic
It is now impossible for us to know how—or even whether—the Romans represented divine action and religious practice in narrative or song before they began their project of adapting Greek literary forms into a national literature of their own in the second half of the third century BC.
Narratives of Roman Syria: a historiography of Syria as a province of Rome
Existing scholarly accounts of Roman Syria revolve around three themes: hellenization,
similarity to Rome, and a profound difference with the western provinces of the Roman empire. In the following sections I argue that the overemphasis on these three themes by scholars has obscured the process of Syria’s incorporation into the Roman empire and the profound impact of this process on local communities.
Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory
Athens as a case study can be useful as an “exemplary narrative” for political science and normative political, on the analogy of the biologicial use of as certain animals (e.g. mice or zebrafish) as “model systems” subject to intensive study by many researchers.
Thucydides and the invention of political science
Thucydides self-consciously invented a new form of inquiry, which can reasonably be called “social and political science.” His intellectual goal was a new understanding of power and its relationship to human agency and the deep structures of human society. His understanding of agency and structure is in some ways reminiscent of the reflexivity theory developed by Anthony Giddens.
The Invention of History: The Pre-History of a Concept from Homer to Herodotus
The Invention of History: The Pre-History of a Concept from Homer to Herodotus By
Attire in Ammianus and Gregory of Tours
Ammianus (c. 330–c. 395) and Gregory of Tours (538–594) both wrote large-scale histories and, as a soldier and a bishop respectively, had first hand experience of many of the persons and events they wrote of. But they lived in very different worlds, the splendid Indian summer of the Roman Empire on the one hand, and the fragmented, perpetually feuding Germanic kingdoms of sixth century, sub-Roman, Merovingian Gaul on the other, where not only bodily coverings and adornments themselves changed but some attitudes towards them did too.
The Presocratics in the doxographical tradition. Sources, controversies, and current research
Until twelve or fifteen years ago, the study of the Presocratics was not often connected to the study of doxography. The Presocratic philosophers received attention individually, and translations were available. But more recently the Presocratics have been experiencing a renewed interest…
DEMOCRATISATION OF GREEK SOCIETY DURING THE ARCHAIC ERA?
In the modern scholarship of the Ancient Greek history there is a well known and well established conception of an universal democratisation of Greek society during the Archaic and Early Classical periods. It could be summarised roughly as follows:1 Af- ter the fall of the Bronze Age Mycenaean civilisation, in the so-called Dark Ages (11th to 8th centuries B.C.), the Greek communities were governed by the kings (basilees).
The dating of Pheidon in antiquity
The dating of the Argive tyrant (or king) Pheidon, a central figure of early Greek history according to the ancients, has long been one of the most disputed questions in the history of Archaic Greece. The reason is obvious – even in antiquity there was no agreement on this point.