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Procopius and Persia (on Geoffrey Greatrex, Procopius of Caesarea: The Persian Wars. Translation with Introduction and Notes and Id. Procopius of Caesarea: The Persian Wars. A Historical Commentary)
No full textElusive Late Antique Historians (on B. Bleckmann et al., edd., Profane Zeitgeschichtsschreibung des ausgehenden 4. und frühen 5. Jahrhunderts)
No full textNuma and Pythagoras: Did Livy Misrepresent Valerius Antias?
Full text linkAccording to Livy, Valerius Antias claimed that the books of Numa Pompilius, Rome’s second king, contained Pythagorean material, a claim that is chronologically impossible. Other evidence for Antias’ account does not support Livy’s allegation, although it has often been assumed that it does, with the result that the allegation has been widely accepted in modern scholarship. These circumstances have not been helped by the way in which some of the other evidence has been presented. As for Livy’s accusation, that may be little more than the hasty conclusion of a man eager to find fault with a predecessor in whose work he had already found much to criticise
A Paper Hellenistic King (on E. Nicholson, Philip V of Macedon in Polybius’ Histories: Politics, History, & Fiction)
Full text linkTheories of the Soul in Polybius and Diodorus (on D. Rohmann, Psychologie in der hellenistischen Geschichtsschreibung)
Full text linkStrabone: Contesto e Scala (on The Geography of Strabo, trans. by D. W. Roller, and D. W. Roller, A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo)
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Cognition, the Future, and the Romans (on M. Popkin and D. Ng, Future Thinking in Roman Culture)
No full textEine Studie des Ephoros von Kyme (on G. Parmeggiani, Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography)
No full textPlutarch, Dionysius, and the Creation of Romulus
Full text linkBy taking account of some particular idiosyncracies in Plutarch’s account of Romulus, and applying the revised understanding of archaic Rome that recent archae- ological advances have brought about, this essay proposes historical contexts for the creation of the stories that became episodes in the life of the first king. It resists the idea, recently proposed, that the story of Romulus was already in existence in the eighth or ninth century BC, and it emphasises the importance throughout antiquity of performance at public festivals as a means of creating and developing myths