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Characters in John (on S. A. Hunt, D. F. Tolmie, and R. Zimmerman, edd., Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John)
No full textStoriografia Antica e Intertestualità (on O. Devillers and B. Battistin Sebastiani, edd., Sources et modèles des historiens anciens)
No full textA Mad King in a Mad World: The Death of Cambyses in Herodotus
Get PDFThis paper advances a theological interpretation of the madness, downfall, and death of the Herodotean Cambyses, understood as divine retribution for the king’s slaying of Apis, the supreme violation of Egyptian nomoi. The first section defines the scope of Cambyses’ punishment more expansively than previous scholarship, from Smerdis’ murder to Cambyses’ anguished final days of restored sanity. The second section analyses Cambyses’ unusual variety of madness as a sort of ‘hyper-rationality’ that, ironically, blinds the mad king to the ‘madness’ of the world. The king’s ruin ultimately proves the moral of the Cambyses logos, that it is madness to deride nomoi, no matter how laughable they might appear
Narrative and Storytelling in Delphic Oracles (on J. Kindt, Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece)
Get PDFCh. 1. Introduction: Narrative and Interpretation in the Hellenistic Historians
No full textPublished in Alexander Meeus, ed., Narrative in Hellenistic Historiography (HISTOS Supplement 8), p. 1-22
Writing Rome’s Past (on K. Sandberg and C. Smith, edd., Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome)
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Die Epipolesis zwischen Epik und Historiographie (on D. Carmona, La escena típica de la epipólesis. De la épica a la historiografía)
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