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Stefan Schorn über die Hellenistische Biographie (on S. Schorn, Studien zur hellenistischen Biographie und Historiographie)
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Der Text der Chronica des Sulpicius Severus (on Sulpici Severi, Chronica, cura et studio P. Parroni)
No full textNew Viewpoints on Procopius (on C. Lillington-Martin and E. Turquois, edd., Procopius of Caesarea: Literary and Historical Interpretations)
No full textA Reading Approach to Herodotus (on P. S. Peek, Herodotus, Histories, Book V. Text, Commentary, and Vocabulary)
Get PDFTacitus’ Germania and the Limits of Fantastic Geography
Get PDFThis article explores Tacitus’ careful, simultaneous positioning of geographical boundaries and the limits of his own writing at the opening and close of the Germania. Three main aspects of Tacitus’ engagement with broader debates concerning the place of mythic and poetic accounts in contemporary geography and ethnography are examined: the treatment of the supposed visits of Hellenic heroes to Germania; the portrayal of Ocean as a significant geographical and metaphorical boundary; and the strict rejection of fantastic ethnography. This examination both elucidates the Germania’s relationship with traditions of geographical and ethnographic writing and points to Tacitus’ portrayal of the region as a potentially conquerable space
A New Edition of Justin, Books 11–23 (on Justin, Abrégé des Histoires Philippiques du Trogue Pompée II. Livres XI–XXIII)
Get PDFNot the Consular Year: Perverting Annalistic Time in Sallust
Get PDFThe consular dating formula situates a work of historiography in the annalistic tradition (or alludes to it from outside) and evokes a complex of Republican norms. Time becomes Republican time and is organised according to the reassuring rhythms of the regular elections, tenures, and relinquishments of magistracies. Scholars have shown how Livy and Tacitus manipulate the formula’s associations to dramatise the disruption or obsolescence of these constitutional forms. Throughout his three works, Sallust produces an even wider range of effects by ironic deployment and radical deformation of the formula
Τὴν ἐκβολὴν τοῦ λόγου ἐποιησάμην: Thucydides’ Chronicle in the Pentekontaetia (1.97–117) is not a Digression
No full textΤὴν ἐκβολὴν τοῦ λόγου ἐποιησάμην (1.97.2) means not ‘I made a digression in my narrative’ but is rather a periphrasis for τὸν λόγον ἐξέβαλον, ‘I have discarded my logos’ (here ‘plan’). It sets aside the Corcyra starting-point announced at 1.23.5–6, interrupted by listing the empire’s much earlier military actions following the league’s foundation. Two old objections are reconsidered. (1) ‘1.88 begins the flashback, so 1.97.2 is not a break’. 1.88–96 is, however, an orderly digression linked to Sparta’s war-vote, extending Herodotus 9.102–12 to the Delian League. 1.97.2 refuses to return to the main narrative. (2) ‘1.97.2 is a jumble of unrelated statements.’ Yet every sentence references τοσάδε/αὐτά, the upcoming content. This first-person preface reflects both its purpose in itself (filling a large gap, replacing Hellanicus) and within Book 1 (changing plan, documenting empire). After the chronicle Thucydides retraces his steps: 1.118 concatenates segments totaling fifty years, repeats 1.97.2, then 1.88, finally resuming 1.87.6 where his initial narrative broke off. 1.97.1 and 1.118 resemble 5.26, where the narrative-period is again extended, another gap filled, and multiple narratives again concatenated. 1.97.2 need not prove a later stage of composition: ‘Spartan fear’ of Athens is prominent (but not to be narrated) in 1.23.6 and later (unless we implausibly remove these as later insertions also)
