Herodian's World : Empire and Emperors in the III Century /
The History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus of Herodian in eight books, written in Greek, is a key source for the period from the reign of Commodus (AD 180) to that of Gordian III (238). Herodian is an eyewitness and the only contemporary historian whose work has come down to us in full. His...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden; Boston :
BRILL,
2022.
Series:
Historiography of Rome and Its Empire ;
12.
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Call Number: HQ281
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Alessandro Galimberti
- Part 1: Herodian's Historiographical Thought
- 1 Narrative Technique and Genre: Herodian the Novelist?
- Adam Kemezis
- 2 Speeches and Speech Units in Herodian: The Limitations of Rhetoric?
- Christopher Mallan
- 3 Caracalla on Stage. A Case Study in Herodian's Dramatic Historiography and Reader-Response
- Mario Baumann
- 4 Herodian, Memory and Judgement: Emperors and Their Death
- Olivier Hekster and Karine Laporte
- 5 Βασιλεύς, δέσπότης or ἄρχων? Thoughts on the Lexicon of the Emperor and the Principate in Herodian's Work
- Agnès Arbo
- 6 Herodian and the Paideia of the Good Emperor: The Case of Severus Alexander
- Umberto Roberto
- 7 Religion in Herodian
- Alessandro Galimberti
- Part 2: Themes of Herodian Historiography: Politics, Army and Geography
- 8 The demos in Herodian
- Daniela Motta
- 9 The Attitude of Herodian towards the Roman Senate
- Pierangelo Buongiorno
- 10 Herodian's Perception of the Provincial Reality
- Agnès Bérenger
- 11 The Emperor, the Coin, the Soldiers
- Pierfrancesco Porena
- 12 Landscape and Geography in Herodian's Work
- Maria Ruiz de l'Árbol
- 13 Herodian and the Italic Peninsula
- Laura Mecella
- 14 The Iranian World of Herodian
- Omar Coloru
- Index.