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A New Commentary on Livy 26 (on L. Beltramini, ed., Commento al libro XXVI di Tito Livio)
Full text linkThreading the Needle of Lucian’s True History (on D. Clay and J. H. Brusuelas, Lucian, True History: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary)
No full textCh. 3. Contemporary Historiography and Ptolemy’s Creation of an ‘Egyptian’ Alexander
No full textIn the wake of the premature death of Alexander the Great, contemporary historiography began to reconfigure his image in response to the aims and ambitions of the various Successors. Ptolemy I was arguably the most successful in reworking the events of Alexander’s campaign in service to his political and military agenda. In particular, Ptolemy took care to excise all the non-Egyptian elements from his narrative of Alexander’s consultation of the oracle at Siwah in order to represent him as a Ptolemaic predecessor, thus laying a solid foundation for his new dynasty based in Alexandria.
Published in Andrew G. Scott,, ed., Studies in Contemporary Historiography (HISTOS Supplement 15), p. 39-63
‘It’s Caesar [Kaiser/Tsar], Not Mr. King.’ (Mis)understanding a Caesarian Pun (Suet. Iul. 79.2) and Its Ironies
Full text linkCaesar’s ambiguous riposte Caesarem se, non Regem esse allowed for various interpretations at the time but was most likely intended and received as a name pun—or so the comparison with Caesar Strabo’s discourse on iocus et facetiae suggests (Cic. De or. 2.216–91); Caesar may even have hoped for his words to take wing. Even if—just as humorously, but now rather ironically—he momentarily turned his name into a title, to interpret such an irony as the declaration that his cognomen was a title superior to rex represents just another instance of the teleological fallacy; then again, that an ironic joke should anticipate the name’s later titular function is itself a historical irony
Enoch Powell’s The History of Herodotus and Three Letters from Felix Jacoby: A Rude Preface, Nazi Germany, and Antisemitism
Full text linkThis paper discusses three unpublished letters from Felix Jacoby (1876–1959) to J. Enoch Powell (1912–98). They met in Germany in December 1938 and corresponded in 1939. Jacoby took offence at the way Powell treated him in his book The History of Herodotus. The conversation veered quickly from scholarship to antisemitism. In the third letter Jacoby questioned Powell on his ‘strong antisemitic bias’ and declared himself ‘no friend of the Jews on the whole’, which raises questions about his own self-identification as a non-Jewish baptised German and his nationalistic views. It also allows to reconsider the long-standing issue of his alleged support of Nazism in a lecture in spring 1933 reported by Georg Picht in a controversial article published in 1977. Finally, Jacoby’s personal tragedies and political opinions come out in his discussion of Pericles’ citizenship law in the commentary on the fragments of Philochorus published in English in 1954
Quintilian on Sallust and Livy
Full text linkThe argument of a famous passage of Quintilian (2.5.19) on Sallust and Livy has been misinterpreted and does not mean that Livy is an easier read than Sallust
Augustus and the Myth of Romulus (on A. Castiello, Augusto il fondatore: la rinascita di Roma e il mito romuleo)
No full textRules of Engagement with Greek Geographical Writing (on S. Brillante, Il Periplo di Pseudo-Scilace: l’oggettività del potere)
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