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On Space, Place, and Form in Herodotus’ Histories
Get PDFThis article reflects on how our own technological developments can help us see Herodotus’ archetype of historical inquiry in a new light. It explores various aspects of place in the Histories—as spaces that are lived, constructed, and relational—to show how and why the idea of place can be such a powerful means for linking information and understanding the past. In discussing the role of place in structuring Herodotus’ narrative, it argues that the potential for linking is afforded by the new prose medium. By virtue of those linkages, Herodotus’ account differs in its spatial configurations from earlier, oral-based narratives
Receptions of Julius Caesar from Ancient to Modern (on T. A. Hass and R. Raja, edd., Caesar’s Past and Posterity’s Caesar)
No full text4. The Difficult Passage from War to Peace: Liminality, Transition, and Tensions in Aristophanes’ Peace 8
Get PDFPublished in Rachel Bruzzone, ed., Polemos and his Children (HISTOS Supplement 12), p. 63-85
The Dutch Ammianus Commentary Completed (on J. den Boeft, J. W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, and H. C. Teitler, Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXXI)
No full textCicero and Sallust: Debating Death
Get PDFThis paper argues that the fate of the imprisoned Catilinarian conspirators was discussed not only at the famous meeting of the senate on 5 December 63 BC but also at an earlier meeting held on the previous day. The hypothesis of an earlier discussion seems to explain both the seemingly problematic nature of Cicero’s Fourth Catilinarian and the transmitted text of Sallust’s introduction to the famous debate
The Early Martyr Narratives (on É. Rebillard, The Early Martyr Narratives: Neither Authentic Accounts nor Forgeries)
Get PDFJordanes and the Date of the Epitome de Caesaribus
Get PDFThe Epitome de Caesaribus is universally assumed to be a work of the late fourth or early fifth centuries. In this article, we demonstrate that the Epitome was in fact compiled at some point after the middle of the sixth century, by showing, on textual and philological grounds, that it has drawn extensively on the Romana of Jordanes (written c. 51/2). We then explore some of the implications of this re-dating for our understanding of the text and its reception in late antiquity
The Fragments of Polybius Compared with those of Duris and Phylarchus
Get PDFThis paper uses the ‘fragments’ of Polybius, i.e., the citations of Polybius found in other authors, as a test case for how to employ such fragments to gain an understanding of now lost works of Hellenistic historiography such as those of Duris and Phylarchus, who have often been denigrated as ‘tragic historians’. Firstly, it compares the distribution of cover-texts citing Polybius with those citing Duris and Phylarchus. Secondly, it compares the types of content of the fragments of Polybius contained in Athenaeus and Plutarch with the types of content of the fragments of Duris and Phylarchus in these same cover-texts. Thirdly, it examines the degree of faithfulness of Athenaeus and Plutarch to their Polybian source in those fragments that correspond to independently preserved parts of Polybius’ text. Finally, some thoughts are proposed on what the fragments of lost works of Hellenistic historiography can and cannot tell us about the original works
