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Gregory of Tours and the Varieties of Death (on Allen E. Jones, Death and the Afterlife in the Pages of Gregory of Tours)
Full text linkPolitical Conflict in Diodorus Siculus: The Χαριέστατοι and the Historian’s Moral Agenda
Full text linkThis article investigates the historiographic identity of Diodorus through the analysis of select narratives of political conflict. These feature in sections of the Library based on different sources and are structured around the contrast between a group of political actors labelled as the χαριέστατοι and another to which they are opposed. I show that, whatever the respective position of the factions on the socio-political spectrum, the main role of the χαριέστατοι is to act as the mouthpieces of Diodorus’ moralising. I also argue that Diodorus’ use of this pattern was the result of his engagement with an Aristotelian variant of traditional aristocratic thought, which he adapted to the political scenarios recounted by his sources in order to suit his moral agenda
Revisiting Marincola\u27s Authority and Tradition (on K. S. Kingsley, G. Monti, and T. Rood, The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography.)
No full textWondering about the Empire: Tacitus and the Marvellous (on J. McNamara and V. Pagán, edd., Tacitus\u27 Wonders)
No full textTacitus\u27 Use of Columella\u27s \u27De re rustica\u27
No full textThis article argues that Tacitus used Columella’s De re rustica as a source text across his oeuvre. Probable allusions to De re rustica appear in each of Tacitus’ five texts, including in important digressions and methodological chapters in Annals. Setting out these allusions and drawing out their narrative significance, the article draws attention to a hitherto unrecognised source of influence on the Roman historian. It further proposes directions for future scholarly analysis of Tacitus’ engagement with technical texts and of how such texts participate in wider conversations about politics, power, and nature
Interpreting and Contextualising the Histories (on E. Bowie, ed., Herodotus: Narrator. Scientist. Historian and T. Harrison and E. Irwin, edd., Interpreting Herodotus)
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On the Development of Greek Historiographyand the Plan for a New Collection of the Fragments of the Greek Historians
Full text linkThe 1956 text with the editorial additions of Herbert Bloch. Translated by Mortimer Chambers and Stefan Schorn
Honour, Fear, and Benefit—In That Order: The Interpolation Of Τιμή in 1.75.3 of Thucydides’ Speech of the Athenians at Sparta
Full text linkThe triad of motives for Athenian action in 1.76.2 is preceded at 1.75.3 by the much-quoted listing of the same three items, in a different order and with too many list-markers, both sequential and preferential. Thucydides’ consistent usage of these markers reveals καὶ τιμῆς and μάλιστα μέν to be insertions. The motive for the interpolation of τιμή (to make the first list match the second) is easy to understand, μάλιστα μέν being added to ‘clarify’ the interpolation on the mistaken analogy of 1.32.1. The restored text eliminates the need to locate ‘fear’ in 75.3, since security and benefit are first introduced in 75.4–5 (after ‘honour’ has been highlighted in the Persian war). The final, full list in 1.76.2 reaches back to 1.73.4 to sum up the whole sequence of allegedly exculpatory human motivations—honour, fear, and benefit—behind Athens’ actions
