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Reading Thucydides in the Early Twentieth Century (on B. Earley, The Thucydidean Turn: (Re)Interpreting Thucydides’ Political Thought Before, During and After the Great War)
Get PDFPolis Histories, Histories of Polities (on R. Thomas, Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World)
No full textLettere dal Fronte: Diplomazia e Trame Personali nei Primi Anni della Guerra Ionica (413–410 a.C.)
Get PDFIl saggio esamina le trattative diplomatiche intercorse durante l’ultima fase della guerra del Peloponneso (la guerra ionica, 413–404 a.C.) e si fonda in particolare sulla descrizione tucididea degli eventi degli anni 413–410. La ricerca si propone di mettere in rilievo le modalità in cui la tradizionale pratica diplomatica greca venne alterata dal nuovo scenario del conflitto e dalla stasis ateniese del 411, al fine di contribuire a chiarire alcuni tratti peculiari (assenza di discorsi diretti, inclusione di documenti e lettere) della narrazione tucididea nel libro ottavo dell’opera
Ch. 2. Thucydides Homericus and the Episode of Mycalessus (Thuc. 7.29–30): Myth and History, Space and Collective Memory
No full textMycalessus, a city in Boeotia which Thucydides describes as ‘not big’, becomes the stage of one of the most atrocious episodes in the History of the Peloponnesian War. The question, ‘Why does Thucydides pay so much attention to this local incident?’ has been dealt with in the bibliography, together with that of the position and role of the episode in the narrative of the Sicilian expedition. This chapter suggests that the mentions of Mycalessus in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo must be viewed as significant intertexts for Thucydides’ interaction with epic material, and for the shaping of his historical narrative as a document of panhellenic memory.
Published in C. Constantakopoulou and M. Fragoulaki, ed., Shaping Memory in Ancient Greece (HISTOS Supplement 11), p. 37-86
Ch. 7. An Inconvenient Past in Hellenistic Athens: The Case of Phaidros of Sphettos
No full textThis essay focuses on Athens after the Chremonidean War and asks how at that time the Athenians remembered the revolution from Demetrios Poliorketes in 286 BCE. As the honours for Phaidros of Sphettos show, the past could not simply be ignored. Since Phaidros’ earlier actions were not consistent with the dominant narrative of the revolution, the past had to be reconfigured to make it suitable for the city’s current circumstances, as I argue. Despite the initial success marked by the passing of the honours, this rewriting was inherently unstable. How the monument might be interpreted in the middle of the third century was very different from how it would be understood in 200 BCE.
Published in C. Constantakopoulou and M. Fragoulaki, ed., Shaping Memory in Ancient Greece (HISTOS Supplement 11), p. 269-301
Sempronia, Q. Curius, and the Decline of Roman Gentes in Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae
Get PDFIn the Bellum Catilinae, Sallust includes detailed character sketches of two Catilinarian conspirators: Q. Curius and Sempronia. Based on a number of lexical and syntactical similarities between the two sketches, this article proposes interpreting them as a matched pair, one that provides a narrative pendant to the earlier pairing of Sallust and Catiline. The article then argues that Sallust singles out Curius and Sempronia as compelling exemplars of the conspiracy because they (and Curius’ mistress Fulvia) synecdochally symbolise the downfall of three Roman gentes—a downfall that was already visible in the recent renaming of the Basilicas Sempronia and Fulvia
Sophia Philobios: La Biografia come Dottrina nella Tradizione Filosofica Greca (on M. Bonazzi and S. Schorn, edd., Bios Philosophos: Philosophy in Ancient Greek Biography)
No full text5. Procopius in Russian
Get PDFPublished in Geoffrey Greatrex, ed., Work on Procopius outside the English-speaking World (HISTOS Supplement 9)
12. Procopius in Dutch Research
No full textPublished in Geoffrey Greatrex, ed., Work on Procopius outside the English-speaking World (HISTOS Supplement 9)
6. A Slavic Excursus and a Little More: Procopius in Czech and Slovak Historiography and Archaeology
Get PDFPublished in Geoffrey Greatrex, ed., Work on Procopius outside the English-speaking World (HISTOS Supplement 9)