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Red Tacitus (on T. E. Strunk, History after Liberty. Tacitus on Tyrants, Sycophants, and Republicans)
Get PDFN. G. Wilson et le Texte d’Hérodote (on N. G. Wilson, ed., Herodoti Historiae: Libri I–IV; and id., Herodotea: Studies on the Text of Herodotus)
No full textHave Vultures Left the Battlefield? Scavengers and War in Greek Historiography
Get PDFThere is much talk in the Iliad of dead warriors abandoned to vultures, and information about vultures tormenting armies can be found in ancient works from various literary genres. Surprisingly, however, when we look at the battle depictions of Greek historians, we do not find vultures portrayed as lurking on the battlefield. The question that arises is why the Greek historians did not adopt this significant element of the Homeric depiction of war. This article will attempt to explain, from various different perspectives, the absence in Greek historiography of vultures and other ferocious beasts in the Homeric role
Reinhold Bichler and Greek Historiography (on R. Bichler, Historiographie— Ethnographie—Utopie. Gesammelte Schriften IV: Studien zur griechischen Historiographie, edd. R. Rollinger and K. Ruffing)
No full textResponse: Sulla nuova edizione di Giustino
Get PDFThis is a response to "Real Epitome or a Cuckoo\u27s Egg?" by Jan P. Stronk
L\u27 Acqua in Tacito (on Y. Benferhat, L’eau et le mouvant. Usages et représentations de l’eau dans l’œuvre de Tacite)
No full textThinking through Josephus and his Readers (on H. Howell Chapman and Z. Rodgers, edd., A Companion to Josephus)
No full textThe Proems of Plutarch’s Lives and Historiography
Get PDFIn this article I focus on Plutarch’s prologues to the Alexander–Caesar, Nicias–Crassus, and Theseus–Romulus books, all of which discuss Plutarch’s biographical method in relation to history. I suggest that in these prologues Plutarch follows a number of standard themes, ideas, and motifs that are common to the prologues of ancient historians in order to demarcate his generic affiliations with historiography, and bolster and advertise his unique and individual literary genre
