676 hasil
Menampilkan 1–20 · 0,12 detik · RSS
Histos
ISSN 2046-5963 · University of Alberta Library · 676 artikel di indeks
-
Artikel Jurnal
Problemi di struttura e di cronologia compositiva nelle Elleniche di Callistene
An entry from Photius’ Lexicon, first published in 1984, reports information allegedly derived from the first book of Hellēnika by Callisthenes of Olynthus. Relying on this passage, which mentions the Arcadian militia of the Eparitoi, the author defends the manuscript tradition of another fragment…
-
Artikel Jurnal
Acrior est Germanorum libertas? Tacitus' Germani as More (and Less) than Freedom-Fighters
This paper explores the portrayal of the Germani in Tacitus’ Germania and in his historical works. It highlights how in the Germania’s first half they are presented as a remote and free people, while in the second they appear as less distant and less homogeneous. These different strands can also be…
-
Artikel Jurnal
Numa the Pythagorean
One of the more puzzling problems in Greco-Roman historiography is the very strong tradition that Numa Pompilius, creator of the Romans’ religious system, was a pupil of Pythagoras, who set up his school in south Italy about 530 bc. The idea was denounced by Cicero and Livy as an anachronistic…
-
Artikel Jurnal
Nomoi and Cannibalism in Herodotus' Histories
This paper argues that Herodotus does not stigmatise cannibalism in his ethnographies. Rather than ‘Othering’ cannibalistic peoples like the Massagetae (1.216), Callatiae (3.38), Padaeans (3.99), and the Issedones (4.26), Herodotus’ depictions encourage his audience towards a stance of tolerance…
-
Artikel Jurnal
Per una proposta di studio dei cataloghi in Tucidide
This paper analyses Thucydides’ catalogues both as a narrative and analytical device within The Peloponnesian War. In particular, this study aims to show their authenticity or functional coherence and cohesion despite the fact that they have been understudied or not always fully understood to…
-
Artikel Jurnal
Larissa and Piasus in the Suda Lexicon
A number of Suda entries (s.v. ἀθέμιστα (Α 714 Adler) and s.v. Πίασος (Π 1549 Adler), and possibly also s.v. ἔωσεν (Ε 1909 Adler) rather than s.v. ἕρμα (Ε 3022 Adler)) deal with the myth of Larissa and her father Piasus, who fell in love with her, raped her, and was murdered by her. The anonymous…
-
Artikel Jurnal
Philo, Writer of History: Constructing a Transcultural Literary Context in De vita Mosis
Whereas most scholarship interprets Philo’s De vita Mosis as a biography or encomium written in the context of a polemic about Judaism, this article proposes instead that the work serves to establish Philo more broadly as an authoritative Graeco-Roman writer of history. To this end, I analyse…