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On the Historiographical Promises and Perils of Reading The Book of Acts in Light of Trajan’s Column (on D. W. Billings, Acts of the Apostles and the Rhetoric of Roman Imperialism)
Get PDFCovenant and Pax Deorum: Polyvalent Prodigies in Josephus’ Jewish War
Get PDFThis paper considers the question of culturally-directed doublespeak in Josephus’ Jewish War, of the possibility of Josephus sending different messages to Gentile and Jewish readers in the same text. It offers two readings of a passage in Jewish War 6 which describes the portents which prefigure the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, and explores how Josephus expresses his narrative in a way which simultaneously evokes parallels with both Roman religion and biblical prophecy and historiography, resulting in a passage which resonates radically differently depending on the parallels which the reader can bring to bear, and which inverts the cultural power-dynamic of Roman imperialism by offering greater interpretative power to those readers who come from an unprivileged provincial culture. It offers a fruitful approach to considering an author who is marked above all by hybridity, and by a mastery of more than one literary tradition
A Bibliography on Cornelius Nepos (on Y. Spies, Kornelbibliographie: Die gesamte Literatur von und über Cornelius Nepos bis zum Ende des Jahres 2015) (rev. 18 October)
No full textLa memoria sociale dei Beoti: una prospettiva senza Atene
Get PDFThe paper investigates a selection of fragments of Boeotian local historiography. The main goal is to re-evaluate the weight of this genre in the reconstruction of the history of the region. The first section (1) argues for the necessity to reconsider local historiography as a fundamental source in writing a regional history of the Greek world: a state of the art is summarised and an updated picture of the genre is presented. In the second (2), a critical anthology uses three categories (lieux de mémoire; cults; local time) to shed new light on the meaning of Boeotian local historiography and argue for its originality.The paper investigates a selection of fragments of Boeotian local historiography. The main goal is to re-evaluate the weight of this genre in the reconstruction of the history of the region. The first section (1) argues for the necessity to reconsider local historiography as a fundamental source in writing a regional history of the Greek world: a state of the art is summarised and an updated picture of the genre is presented. In the second (2), a critical anthology uses three categories (lieux de mémoire; cults; local time) to shed new light on the meaning of Boeotian local historiography and argue for its originality
14. Procopius in Greek Scholarship
Get PDFPublished in Geoffrey Greatrex, ed., Work on Procopius outside the English-speaking World (HISTOS Supplement 9)
2. Felix Dahn and Jacob Haury: The Foundations of Procopius Research in the German Language
No full textPublished in Geoffrey Greatrex, ed., Work on Procopius outside the English-speaking World (HISTOS Supplement 9)
8. Research on Procopius of Caesarea in the Scandinavian Languages
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15. Procopius in Spain
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18. Research on Procopius in Portuguese: the Case of Brazil
No full textPublished in Geoffrey Greatrex, ed., Work on Procopius outside the English-speaking World (HISTOS Supplement 9)