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Essays on Livy’s Two Millennia (on G. Baldo and L. Beltramini, edd., Livius noster: Tito Livio e la sua eredità)
No full textWhat Kind of History is ‘Intentional’ History? (on H.-J. Gehrke, The Greeks and Their Histories: Myth, History, and Society, translated by R. Geuss)
No full textCh. 4. Caesar’s Talkative Centurions: Anecdotal Speech, Soldierly Fides, and Contemporary History
No full textCaesar purports to quote brief utterances by his centurions at dramatic moments in the commentarii, who provide testimony ‘from the ranks’. These speakers demonstrate Caesar’s bond with his men and offer readers in Rome interpretations of contested events that might be indecorous for Caesar to make in his own voice, but which have persuasive power from notionally independent and unrhetorical soldiers. For non-contemporary readers these specifics were inapposite or irrelevant, however, and later writers such as Appian and Plutarch give Caesarian centurions only stock declarations of loyalty.
Published in Andrew G. Scott,, ed., Studies in Contemporary Historiography (HISTOS Supplement 15), p. 65-106
Malalas as Historian of His Times (on O. Gengler and M. Meier, edd., Johannes Malalas: Der Chronist als Zeithistoriker)
No full textThe Roman Army at War in the Second Century CE (on D. B. Campbell, Deploying a Roman Army: The Ektaxis kat’Alanōn of Arrian)
Get PDFEssays on Herodotus and Ethnicity (on T. Figueira and C. Soares, edd., Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus)
No full textEssays on Historiography in Late Antique Iberia (on P. U. Rabaneda, ed., Writing History in Late Antique Iberia: Historiography in Theory and Practice from the 4th to the 7th Century)
No full textWas There Dual Authorship in Greek Historiography? A Critical Overview of the Epigraphic and Literary Evidence from Aristotle to Pamphile of Epidaurus
Get PDFThis paper discusses jointly written works in ancient literature. Although this topic has received little attention, there is sufficient evidence, particularly from epigraphic sources, that informs us about dual authorship in Greek historiography. The main aim of this paper is to present those examples and to explore what influence dual authorship might have had on the content of those historiographical works. In this context, it will also be discussed why this phenomenon is encountered only sporadically in antiquity
