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Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Emperors and Biography written by Ronald Syme and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides biographical information for Roman emperors of the third century.
Author : David Rohrbacher
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299306046
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Play of Allusion in the Historia Augusta written by David Rohrbacher and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2016 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns outlandish, humorous, and scatological, the Historia Augusta is an eccentric compilation of biographies of the Roman emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries. Historians of late antiquity have struggled to explain the fictional date and authorship of the work and its bizarre content (did the Emperor Carinus really swim in pools of floating apples and melons? did the usurper Proculus really deflower a hundred virgins in fifteen days?). David Rohrbacher offers, instead, a literary analysis of the work, focusing on its many playful allusions. Marshaling an array of interdisciplinary research and original analysis, he contends that the Historia Augusta originated in a circle of scholarly readers with an interest in biography, and that its allusions and parodies were meant as puzzles and jokes for a knowing and appreciative audience.
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Historia Augusta Papers written by Ronald Syme and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together fifteen studies written since 1972 on the notorious Historia Augusta. Syme advances the theory, supported by computer evidence, that the papers are the work of only one person, rather than six as they purport, and that they were written considerably later than the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He argues that, taken as a whole, the papers are a work of "fictional history" and constitute an elaborate and erudite hoax.
Author : Mark Thomson (Classicist)
Publisher : Latomus/Tournai
ISBN 13 : 9782870312780
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Historia Augusta written by Mark Thomson (Classicist) and published by Latomus/Tournai. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This short monograph examines the authorship, date, context, redaction and reception of the Historia Augusta - a corpus of biographies of emperors and usurpers of the second and third centuries, which purports to be the work of six writers active in the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. Thomson accepts the widely held view that one author, a scholarly impostor, composed and redacted the Historia Augusta some time after about 395. Internal evidence -which includes administrative anachronisms and allusions to events, as well as spurious names, genealogies and documents - suggests that the corpus was intended for an audience among the Roman elite of the end of the fourth century. Thomson argues that the lives were not written for a polemical purpose. Their author instead responded to widespread interest in the works of Suetonius and Marius Maximus; his countless fabrications represented attempts to fill lacunae in the record with material appropriate to the genre of imperial biography. To this end, the scholarly impostor plundered the tradition for literary models and historical examples, apparently unmoved by the strict demands of chronology. This monograph advances several arguments that may be considered innovative. After examining the evidence of the text and the tradition, Thomson substantively revises existing theories on the redaction of the corpus. He proposes that an extant collection of panegyrics (the Panegyrici Latini) -or some similar work now lost- may have provided a model for the otherwise baffling imposture of collective authorship and tetrarchic date. Thomson also tentatively suggests a connection between the scholarly impostor, the spurious author Flavius Vopiscus Syracusius and a Syracusan poetaster and antiquarian active in the relevant period (Naucellius)."--Publisher's website.
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Historia Augusta written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004452796
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Late-Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron written by William V. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late-antique studies. In this tribute fourteen new studies, which range from the first century AD to the ninth, pay him homage.
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Emperor and Biography written by Ronald Syme and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Rohrbacher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134628846
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Historians of Late Antiquity written by David Rohrbacher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth and fifth centuries AD were an era of religious conflict, political change and military conflict. The responses of contemporary historians to these turbulent times reflect their diverse backgrounds - Christian and pagan, writing in both Greek and Latin, documenting church and state. This volume is the first to offer an accessible survey of the lives and works of these varied figures. The first half of the book explores the structure, style, purpose and nature of their writings. The second half compares and contrasts the information the historians provide, and the views they express on some central topics. These range from historiography, government and religion to barbarian invasions, and the controversial emperors Julian 'The Apostate' and Theodosius.
Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
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Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Review of Emperors and Biography: Studies in the Historia Augusta, by Ronald Syme, 1971 written by Arnaldo Momigliano and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew G. Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190879599
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Emperors and Usurpers written by Andrew G. Scott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical commentary examines books 79(78)-80(80) of Cassius Dio's Roman History, which cover the period from the death of Caracalla in A. D. 217. to the reign of Severus Alexander and Cassius Dio's retirement from political life in 229. Cassius Dio, a Roman Senator, provides a valuable eyewitness account of this turbulent period, which was marked by the assassination of Caracalla, the rise of Macrinus, Rome's first equestrian emperor, and his subsequent overthrow, the tempestuous, and by all accounts peculiar, reign of Elagabalus, and the continuation of the Severan dynasty under the young Severus Alexander. In addition to elucidating important passages from these books, this study assesses Cassius Dio's political life and its relationship to his literary career; his call to history and time of composition; his historical method; and his attitude toward and subsequent presentation of the later Severan dynasty. In its investigation of books 79(78)-80(80), the work assesses an important stretch of Dio's actual text, which for other parts has been preserved largely in epitome and excerpts. Finally, the work aims to fill a gap in scholarship, as no commentary on these books of Cassius Dio's history has been produced since the nineteenth century, and its publication coincides with a renewed interest in the history and historiography of the Severan period.
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Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
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Download or read book Emperors and biography. Studies in the Historia Augusta. By Sir Ronald Syme. 1971. [Review]. written by Arnaldo Momigliano and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Koen De Temmerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316598500
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Writing Biography in Greece and Rome written by Koen De Temmerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of ancient texts which are or purport to be biographical and explores how formal narrative categories such as time, space and character are constructed and how they address (highlight, question, thematize, underscore or problematize) the borderline between historicity and fictionality. In doing so, it makes a major contribution not only to the study of ancient biographical writing but also to broader narratological approaches to ancient texts.
Author : Marco Rizzi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110224712
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Hadrian and the Christians written by Marco Rizzi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Century occupies a central place in the development of ancient Christianity. The aim of the book is to examine how in the cultural, social, and religious efflorescence of the Second Century,to be witnessed inphenomena such as the Second Sophistic, Christianity found a peculiar way of integrating into the more general transformation of the Empire and how this allowed the emerging religion to establish and flourish in Graeco-Roman society. Hadrian’s reign was the starting point ofthat process and opened new possibilities of self-definition and external self-presentation to Christianity, as well asto other social and religious agencies. Differently from Judaism, however, Christianity fully seized the opportunity,thus gaining an increasing place in Graeco-Roman society, which ultimately led to the first Christian peace under the Severan emperors. The point at issue is examined from a multi-disciplinary perspective (including archaeology, cultural, religious, and political history) to challenge well-established, but no longer satisfactory, historical and hermeneutical paradigms. The contributors aim to examine institutional issues and sociocultural processes in their different aspects, as they were made possibleon Hadrian’s initiative andresulted inthemerge of early Christianityinto the Roman Empire.
Author : Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Emperors and Biography, Studies in the Historia Augusta, by Sir Ronald Syme, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971 ... written by Arnaldo Momigliano and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mario Baumann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110764121
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Reading History in the Roman Empire written by Mario Baumann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the relationship of Greco-Roman historians with their readerships has attracted much scholarly attention, classicists principally focus on individual historians, while there has been no collective work on the matter. The editors of this volume aspire to fill this gap and gather papers which offer an overall view of the Greco-Roman readership and of its interaction with ancient historians. The authors of this book endeavor to define the physiognomy of the audience of history in the Roman Era both by exploring the narrative arrangement of ancient historical prose and by using sources in which Greco-Roman intellectuals address the issue of the readership of history. Ancient historians shaped their accounts taking into consideration their readers’ tastes, and this is evident on many different levels, such as the way a historian fashions his authorial image, addresses his readers, or uses certain compositional strategies to elicit the readers’ affective and cognitive responses to his messages. The papers of this volume analyze these narrative aspects and contextualize them within their socio-political environment in order to reveal the ways ancient readerships interacted with and affected Greco-Roman historical prose.
Author : Timothy David Barnes
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Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sources of the Historia Augusta written by Timothy David Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael H. Dodgeon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134961146
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 226-363 written by Michael H. Dodgeon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects and translates such diverse sources as Zosimus, John Malalas, Al-Tabari and Moses of Chorene, to give us a picture of this complex, fraught period of Roman history.
