Habelt, 1976. — xi + 400 p. Alföldy G. Das neue saeculum des Pescennius Niger Alföldy G. Zwei Schimpfnamen des Kaisers Elagabal: Tiberinus und Tractatitius Badian E. Aelius’ Literary Tastes (HA, Ael. 5,9) Béranger J. L’idéologie impériale dans l’Histoire Auguste Birley A.R. The Lacuna in the Historia Augusta Birley A.R. Septimius C. f. Qui. Severus: A Note Birley E. Local...
Habelt, 1978. — viii + 244 p. Alföldy G. Die römische Sozialordnung in der Historia Augusta. Béranger J. Les procès politiques évoqués par l’Histoire Auguste. Béranger J. Pertinax et les alimenta: SHA Pert. 9.3. Birley A.R. Pertinax and the alimenta. Birley E. „Tales of my Grandfather“. Birley E. Fresh thoughts on the dating of the Historia Augusta. Chastagnol A. Latus clavus...
Habelt, 1980. — xiii + 296 p. Béranger J. L’imperium proconsulaire et la puissance tribunicienne dans l’Histoire Auguste. Béranger J. Mommsen et l’Histoire Auguste. Birley E. True and False: Order of Battle in the HA. Chastagnol A. Quatre études sur la Vita Cari: L’avenement de Carus. La patrie de Carus. Romanus, id est Roma oriundus. Numérien l’intellectuel. Clover F.M. The...
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1989. — 541 S. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien 5). Mark Aurel und Commodus Herodian über den Tod Mark Aurels Der Friedensschluß des Kaisers Commodus mit den Germanen Bellum desertorum Cleanders Sturz und die antike Überlieferung Die Severerzeit Das neue saeculum des Pescennius Niger Pannoniciani augures Eine...
Brill, 2022. — 312 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 458). The aim of this volume is to study Silius’ poem as an important step in the development of the Roman historical epic tradition. The Punica is analyzed as transitional segment between the beginnings of Roman literature in the Republican age (Naevius and Ennius) and Claudian’s panegyrical epic in late antiquity, shedding light...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2019. — 572 p. — (Giornale Italiano di Filologia - Bibliotheca 19). Da duemila anni gli Ab Urbe condita libri di Tito Livio (Padova 59 a.C. - 17 d.C.) non cessano di porre a lettori e studiosi di tutto il mondo enormi e affascinanti interrogativi. L'ambizioso progetto dello storico, narrare tutta la storia di Roma dalla sua fondazione...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2021. — 904 p. — (Giornale Italiano di Filologia - Bibliotheca 26). This book stems from a conference on Livy held at the University of Padua, on the occasion of the bimillenary of the historian’s death (6-10 November 2017). The aim of the volume is to shed new light on lesser-known aspects of Livy’s historiography, by approaching his work...
Cornell University Press, 1998. — 298 p. — (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology 56). Much of what we know today of Rome in the fourth century has its source in Res Gestae, the sole surviving work of the historian Ammianus Marcellinus. The accuracy of Ammianus' reporting has come under question over the past fifty years, however, and Timothy D. Barnes here offers new grist...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 256 p. Polybius and Roman Imperialism explores in depth the complexity of the Greek historian Polybius' views on the expansion of Roman power. Although he considered imperialism intrinsically noble, and both admired and supported Roman domination, Polybius also evinced detachment from the ruling power. This detachment came in different forms:...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 256 p. Polybius and Roman Imperialism explores in depth the complexity of the Greek historian Polybius' views on the expansion of Roman power. Although he considered imperialism intrinsically noble, and both admired and supported Roman domination, Polybius also evinced detachment from the ruling power. This detachment came in different forms:...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 276 p. — (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 98). 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...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 276 p. — (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 98). 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...
University of Toronto Press, 2024. — xvi + 451 p. — (Phoenix Supplementary Volume 62). Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires d’Hadrien , her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The work can be examined from the perspective of the issues raised by writing Roman imperial biography at large and the many ways in which Mémoires...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 280 p. — (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 141). There is no modern commentary on the whole of Valerius Maximus' Facta et dicta memorabilia, though commentaries on books 1 and 2 have been published by, respectively, David Wardle (1998) and Andrea Themann-Steinke. Progress is likely to be made by further commentaries on individual books and...
Brill, 2020. — 360 p. — (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, Vol. 7). In Cassius Dio’s Speeches and the Collapse of the Roman Republic , Christopher Burden-Strevens provides a radical reinterpretation of the importance of public speech in one of our most significant historical sources for the bloody and dramatic transition from Republic to Principate. Cassius Dio’s Roman...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022. — 180 p. — (Giornale Italiano di Filologia - Bibliotheca 30). Né en 64 avant J.-C. au sein d’une famille appartenant à l’élite aristocratique de Damas, Nicolas fut un polygraphe renommé. La partie sauvegardée de son œuvre, mal connue, se compose notamment d’une Vie d’Auguste, qui constitue le plus ancien compte rendu détaillé conservé non...
Brill, 2009. — 372 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 319). In this collection of essays Roman historical and biographical texts are studied from a literary point of view. The main interest of the author, Daniël den Hengst, professor emeritus of Latin at the University of Amsterdam, concerns the development of Roman historiography, the ways in which Roman historians present their...
Oxford University Press, 1993. — 288 p. This book contains new critical editions of two early and important examples of the most popular Late Roman historical genres. The two texts, Chronicle of Hydatius and Consularia Constantinopolitana, provide an indispensable contemporary account of the fourth century A.D. These editions, based on the first ever examination of all surviving...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2003. — 376 p. — (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 67). This volume reconstructs the contents of the library in Roman Palestine of Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 265-339) by examining Eusebius’ major works, the Ecclesiastical History, Chronicon, Preparation for the Gospel, and Life of Constantine. After surveying the history of the library from its origins as...
Brill, 2022. — 408 p. — (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 15). In the process of recording the history of the Roman Empire, from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III, Herodian makes his characters respond to the same situations in similar or different ways. This book shows that each reign in Herodian’s History is creatively mapped onto...
University of Lund, 2018. — 263 p. The Roman historian Tacitus is not only our most important source for the Early Roman Empire, but also a literary artist second to none. His fragmentarily preserved Annales deals with the imperial rule established by the first emperor Augustus, the Julio-Claudian dynasty (AD 14 – 68). Through his scathing analyses of the consequences of...
Leiden: Brill, 2007. — 326 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 289). In Books 26 31 Ammianus Marcellinus deals with the period of the emperors Valentinian and Valens. The representatives of the new dynasty differ greatly from their predecessor Julian, both personally and in their style of government. The Empire is divided between the two rulers, and suffers increasingly from barbarian...
Routledge, 2003. — 256 p. — (Routledge Classical Monographs). Ammianus Marcellinus, Greek by birth but writing in Latin c. AD 390, was the last great Roman historian. His writings are an indispensable basis for our knowledge of the late Roman world. This book represents a collection of papers analysing Ammianus's writings from a variety of perspective, including Ammianus as...
Mohr Siebeck, 2024. — VIII, 462 S. — (Themes and Forms in Graeco-Roman Literature (ThFGRL) 1). Der Sammelband lenkt den Blick erstmals konsequent auf Frontos späte Briefbücher. Ziel ist ein Neuansatz gegenüber der Forschung, die Frontos Briefe auf die Funktion privater Gebrauchstexte reduziert. Dagegen verstehen die Beiträger und Beiträgerinnen des Bandes Frontos Briefwerk als...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 336 p. Provides a unique and accessible understanding of Sallust and his influence on writing the history of Rome. Gaius Sallustius Crispus (‘Sallust’, 86-35 BCE) is the earliest Roman historian from whom any works survive. His two extant writings chronicle crucial moments of a political, social, and ethical revolution with profound consequences for his...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. — 147 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 132). By quantitative and thematic analysis of a carefully defined set of data this book examines Livy's caution toward the quasi-historical traditions of early Rome recorded in his first ten books, the limitations of his historical judgment, and how he tried to resolve conflicts in his sources. It also treats his...
De Gruyter, 2025. — 518 p. — (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 110). Die Spätantike brachte einen erheblichen Wandel in Gesellschaft, Staatlichkeit und Religion mit sich, der breite Diskussion über diese „Transformationsepoche" anregt. Zu diesen Wandlungen gehört auch ein historiographischer Trend zur Kürze, der sich nicht zuletzt in der weiten Verbreitung...
Brill, 2021. — 340 p. — (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 12). 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 point of...
Brill, 2021. — 340 p. — (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 12). 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 point of...
Cambridge Philological Society, 2019. — 370 p. Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyse how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed...
Salem, N.H.: Ayer Co., 1981. — 152 p. Introduction The Beginning of the Year The End of the Year The Narrative of the Year Selection of Subject Matter Tacitus and Annalistic History Appendix I: The End Chapters Appendix II: The Arrangement of the Tacitean Year Appendix III: Senatorial Material in the Annual Account
Brill, 2025. — 400 p. — (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 20). This book analyses late antique historiography and epideictic texts, focusing on how divine knowledge of imperial futures safeguarded the legitimacy of Roman emperors. It begins with Constantine and his tetrarchic colleagues (A), before moving to Constantius II and Julian (B), then Valens (C), and ending with...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 487 p. — (Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte 100). Die Werke des Tacitus prägen bis heute das Bild, das die Nachwelt über die frühe römische Kaiserzeit besitzt. Dieses Bild muss jedoch kritisch auf seinen Wahrheitsgehalt geprüft werden. Denn dem eigenen Grundsatz der unparteilichen Berichterstattung bleibt Tacitus bei genauerer Analyse...
Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 1985. — 605 p. — (Collection de l'Ecole francaise de Rome. № 83). Un plan simple et clair (réalités, influences et résurgence), un style et une argumentation rigoureux et le souci de montrer que les proscriptions représentaient un phénomène de l'histoire politique de Rome, au dernier siècle de la République, caractérisent le livre de F. Hinard. Ces...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 464 p. What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ancient Rome and of ancient Rome. Its chapters reach from antiquity to the twentieth century and cover literature and art, the two areas that predominate in forgery studies, as well as the...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 464 p. What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ancient Rome and of ancient Rome. Its chapters reach from antiquity to the twentieth century and cover literature and art, the two areas that predominate in forgery studies, as well as the...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 464 p. What do forgeries do? Forgery Beyond Deceit: Fabrication, Value, and the Desire for Ancient Rome explores that question with a focus on forgery in ancient Rome and of ancient Rome. Its chapters reach from antiquity to the twentieth century and cover literature and art, the two areas that predominate in forgery studies, as well as the...
Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1994. — 536 p. — (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 45). Die hier vorliegenden Untersuchungen sind einigen antiken Historikern gewidmet, die bislang auf weniger Interesse der altphilologisch-literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung gestoßen sind, dafür aber besondere Aufmerksamkeit bei Althistorikern zu finden pflegen. Gewiß, der literarische Rang eines Florus,...
Gorgias Press, 2013. — 380 p. A collection of articles by Richard E. Mitchell presenting all the major historiographical problems scholars encounter in reconstructing the early Republic. Mitchell was one of the first scholars to question the practice of taking the broad outlines of the accounts handed down by Roman historians (writing hundreds of years later) at face value in...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — ix, 300 p. — (Greek culture in the Roman world). The Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to Rome in 30/29 BC. He learnt Latin, developed a network of students, patrons and colleagues, and started to teach rhetoric. He published a history of early Rome (Roman Antiquities), and essays on rhetoric and literary criticism, including On...
University of Michigan Press, 1997. — 224 p. The modern age is not the only one in which Romans and visitors to Rome have been fascinated with the city's striking juxtapositions of past and present. Rome's wealth of history also captured the imagination of the ancients. Livy's Written Rome, by Mary Jaeger, shows how one writer explored the relationship between events in Roman...
Brill, 2012. — 228 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 345). Allusions to the epic poets Virgil and Lucan in the writing of the Roman historian Tacitus (c. 55 – c. 120 C.E.) have long been noted. This monograph argues that Tacitus fashions himself as a rivaling literary successor to these poets; and that the emulative allusions to Virgil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Bellum Civile in Books 1–3...
Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1972. — 76 S. Tacitus als Politologe — Viktor Pöschl Tacitus’ Agricola — Albert Klinz Didaktische Vorbesinnung Aufbau und Gehalt Zeitkritik und historisches Bewußtsein Imperialistische Bestrebungen Domitian (39-45,2) Schlachtschilderung und Stimmungsbild
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2000. — 337 p. Dealing with the subject of apologetics and polemics against the pagans in Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260-340), this volume discusses his response to the vigorous political, cultural and religious campaign launched against Christianity in his time. The first part of the book examines the background for Eusebius' apologetic enterprise and his...
Phoibos Verlag, 2014. — 264 S. Der Autor Péter Kovács beschäftigt sich seit vielen Jahren mit den Schrift- und Inschriftquellen Pannoniens und hat diese in sieben Bänden der Reihe „Fontes Pannoniae Antiquae“ in ungarischer Sprache mit Übersetzungen und Kommentaren publiziert. Die deutsche Fassung präsentiert nun die Reihe „Die antiken Quellen zu Pannonien in der Spätantike“,...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 464 p. Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing this authoritative collection of essays, which ranges over the...
Leiden University, 2023. — 317 p. This thesis explores the use of narrative patterns in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire (third century AD), a work that covers in eight books the period between the death of Marcus Aurelius, in 180, and the accession of Gordian III, in 238. Drawing from narratological studies and literary theory, this dissertation provides a detailed...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 539 p. — (Hermes-Einzelschriften 117). Bis heute wird unser Bild des römischen Kaisers Nero und unsere Vorstellung von seiner Herrschaftszeit wesentlich von Tacitus geprägt. Besondere Faszination und Nachwirkung entfalten dabei Szenen wie die Ermordung der Kaisermutter Agrippina, der Brand Roms mit der anschließenden Christenverfolgung, die...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 320 p. Roman author Cornelius Nepos wrote at a very dynamic time in Roman history, but oddly enough little has been said about what his surviving work as a whole can tell us about that period. In the scholarship of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the author was much maligned as inaccurate, simple-minded, and derivative, and thus it...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 320 p. Roman author Cornelius Nepos wrote at a very dynamic time in Roman history, but oddly enough little has been said about what his surviving work as a whole can tell us about that period. In the scholarship of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the author was much maligned as inaccurate, simple-minded, and derivative, and thus it...
Brill, 2000. — x, 174 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 205). Although Josephus' debt to the traditions of Greco-Roman historiography is widely recognized, the classical elements in his Bellum Judaicum are still often dismissed as just formal ornatus. This study reconsiders Josephus' intellectual affiliation to his predecessors in the genre and argues that the work's classical...
Brill, 2022. — 548 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies). This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical cannon. Together the eighteen chapters focus on Cassius Dio's background as a Graeco-Roman...
Brill, 2021. — 478 p. — (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 10). This volume focuses on Cassius Dio as a historian – the only historian who allows us to follow the developments of Rome’s political institutions during a more than thousand year period, from the foundation of the city to Cassius Dio’s retirement from public life in 229 CE. The volume explores the Roman...
University of Oxford, 2015. — 360 p. This thesis is a historical and historiographical commentary on Book 57 (Chs. 1-17.8) of Cassius Dio's Roman History. It comprises two sections, an Introduction followed by the Commentary itself. The introduction is sub-divided into three chapters. The first of these introductory chapters (The Roman Historian at Work) presents a discussion...
Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1979. — 317 S. Dios Einstellung zur Monarchie: Fragestellung — Positive Aspekte — Negative Aspekte — Ausgleich? — Vorläufiges Fazit — Idealistische Aspekte Ergebnis Die politischen Anfänge Oktavians: Begründung der Textauswahl und Ziel der Untersuchung — Abstammung. Jugend. Vorzeichen (45, 1 f.) — Der Eintritt in die Politik (45, 3 f.) — Oktavians...
Brill, 1977. — 330 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 45). Table of contents: Preface Abbreviations Introduction I. Life of Sallust 2. The writings of Sallust 3. The Bellum Catilinae 4. Judgements on Sallust 5. The text 6. Bibliographical note Commentary Appendixes I. The introduction to Bellum Catilinae II. Sources of the concepts in the introduction III. The accuracy of Sallust's...
Translated by Hans-Friedrich Mueller — Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 300 p. Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in both Greek and Latin, from the early annalists to Orosius and Procopius of Byzantium. - Provides an accessible survey of every historical writer...
Translated by Hans-Friedrich Mueller — Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 300 p. Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Basic Aspects and Development presents a comprehensive introduction to the development of Roman historical writings in both Greek and Latin, from the early annalists to Orosius and Procopius of Byzantium. - Provides an accessible survey of every historical writer of...
London - New York: Routledge, 1999. – 223 p. ISBN: 0-415-11773-9 (hbk) ISBN: 0-415-11774-7 (pbk) ISBN: 0-203-04726-5 Master e-book ISBN: ISBN: 0-203-22060-9 (Glassbook Format) The Roman Historians provides a clear survey and a critical analysis of five centuries of historical writing in and about ancient Rome. The book examines authors of various historical genres – narrative,...
University of Cambridge, 2022. — 146 p. This thesis provides a commentary on chapters 15–25 (inclusive) of Tacitus Annales 13 which form part of Tacitus’ annalistic narrative of the years AD 55 and 56, narrating the murder of Britannicus and its aftermath, Junia Silana’s conspiracy against Agrippina, Pallas’ and Burrus’ alleged plot against Nero, measures taken to quell unrest...
Brill, 2020. — 178 p. — (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, v. 6). The Greek historian Polybius (2nd century B.C.E.) produced an authoritative history of Rome’s rise to dominance in the Mediterranean that was explicitly designed to convey valuable lessons to future generations. But throughout this history, Polybius repeatedly emphasizes the incomparable value of first-hand,...
Paris: sociе́tе́ d’е́dition Les Belles lettres, 1982. — 267 р. — ISBN 978-2251331034. Une nuit de décembre 62 av. J.-C., un jeune patricien romain, Publius Clodius Pulcher, déguisé en femme, s'introduit dans la résidence officielle de César, alors magistrat et grand pontife, où Pompeia, femme de celui-ci, célèbre une cérémonie religieuse secrète réservée aux femmes. Démasqué et...
Blackwell Publishing, 2012. — 599 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-9032-9. A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus. The companion provides both a broad introduction and showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich our...
Brill, 2021. — 360 p. — (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, Vo. 09). Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. What did they seek to accomplish by participating in its re-creation, what tools did they have at their disposal to do so, and which underlying conceptualisations of history...
Ed. II. — New York: The American Philological Association, 2007. — 272 p. — ISBN 9780195320848. In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.) recounts the dramatic events of 63 B.C., when a disgruntled and impoverished nobleman, L. Sergius Catilina, turned to armed revolution after two electoral defeats. Among his followers were a group of heavily...
University of Chicago Press, 2006. — 168 p. — ISBN13: 978-0226713007. In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered—the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had hoped for the letters to convey all of the political...
Habelt, 1991. — xi + 268 p. Birley E. Moderatus: A Postscript Brandt H. Subsidienzahlungen in der Historia Augusta Bruggisser P. Septime Sévère et le projet de gémination de la statue de la Fortune (HA S 23,5-7) Chastagnol A. Le Capitole dans l’Histoire Auguste Clover F.M. The Historia Augusta and the Latin Anthology Dack E. van’t Alexandre le Grand dans l’HA Dack E. van’t...
Brill, 2022. — 442 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 463; Brill's Narratological Commentaries on Ancient Texts 463). This Narratological Commentary on Silius’ Battle of Ticinus lays bare the narrative form of the text by addressing numerous narratological aspects, including plot-development, focalization, space, and intertextuality. The book also focuses on the phenomenon of...
Brill, 2023. — 268 p. — (Historiography of Rome and Its Empire 18). Cassius Dio described his own age as one of "iron and rust." This study, which is the first of its kind in English, examines the decline and decay that Cassius Dio diagnosed in this period (180-229 CE) through an analysis of the author's historiographic method and narrative construction. It shows that the final...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 432 p. - Offers the first comprehensive study of religion in Tacitus' Annals - Combines traditional philological methods with cultural memory theory, analyzing the work from a new perspective - Follows a chronological structure and sequential-reading approach which highlights Tacitus' narrative arrangement of religious material Throughout his...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 432 p. - Offers the first comprehensive study of religion in Tacitus' Annals - Combines traditional philological methods with cultural memory theory, analyzing the work from a new perspective - Follows a chronological structure and sequential-reading approach which highlights Tacitus' narrative arrangement of religious material Throughout his...
Gorgias Press, 2013. — 376 p. Ammianus’ treatment of the emotion of anger reveals as much, if not more, about his education, values, beliefs, personality, than it does about the people he writes about. This research contributes to a greater depth of understanding of the role of the key emotion of anger within the individual and collective lives of the characters as portrayed by...
De Gruyter, 2009. — 347 p. — (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 273). Die Romaika Cassius Dios dienten bisher eher als Steinbruch zu Rekonstruktion verlorener Quellen und der Ereignisgeschichte. Diese Arbeit verknüuuml;pft die traditionelle "Quellenforschung" der Romaika des severischen Senators mit der Suche nach seiner Sicht der Röouml;mischen Republik, indem sie, angeleitet durch...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 552 p. — (Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature). This book rediscovers a lost history of the Roman Empire, written by Sextus Aurelius Victor (ca. 320-390) and demonstrates for the first time both the contemporary and lasting influence of his historical work. Though little regarded today, Victor is the best-attested historian of the...
Habelt, 1983. — xi + 387 p. Alföldy G. Die Ortsnamen in der Historia Augusta Béranger J. Observations sur les clausules dans l’Histoire Auguste Birley E. Some Names in the Historia Augusta Chastagnol A. Études sur la Vita Cari: VIII Carin et Elagabal Chastagnol A. Quelques thèmes bibliques dans l’Histoire Auguste Clover F.M. Olympiodorus of Thebes and the Historia Augusta Liebs...
University of California Press, 1964. — vi + 381 p. — (Sather Classical Lectures.) With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust—whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian—in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but...
Reissue. — Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1997. — xii + 464 p. Volume I This now-classic work seeks to place Tacitus in his social and political context. Syme not only analyzes in detail Tacitus's writings, their development and style, but also his political career, using his progress through government to illustrate the process that brought new men from the western provinces to success...
Reissue. — Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1997. — 392 p. Volume II This now-classic work seeks to place Tacitus in his social and political context. Syme not only analyzes in detail Tacitus's writings, their development and style, but also his political career, using his progress through government to illustrate the process that brought new men from the western provinces to success and...
University of Michigan Press, 2023. — 424 p. The late first- and early second-century Roman senator and historian Cornelius Tacitus, whom Edward Gibbon described as “the first of the historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts,” shaped the development of the modern understanding of history as a crucial vehicle for social analysis. The breadth of his...
Edited with a commentary by A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin . — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 514 p. — (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 32). The Annals of Tacitus , which chronicle the years AD 14-68, are arguably the greatest work of the greatest Roman historian. Book 3 of The Annals covers the years AD 20-22, a period including the trial of...
Brill, 1999. — xii, 732 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 190). This is the first commentary on the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. 90-95 - c. 167). It aims at an extensive grammatical, stylistic and historical interpretation of the letters and the ancient testimonies on Fronto. The author demonstrates where Fronto stands in Latin literature; hence the numerous quotations of...
De Gruyter, 2012. — 328 p. — (Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 41). Ammianus is regarded as the greatest historian of late antiquity. Yet his geographic and ethnographic digressions were long underestimated as examples of feigned erudition and as undue interruptions to the historical narrative. The author of this volume believes that the key to understanding Ammianus’s...
Edited by Mehran A. Nickbakth and Carlo Scardino. — Ferdinand Schöningh, 2021. — 410 p. Das um 360/61 n. Chr. verfasste Geschichtswerk des Aurelius Victor behandelt die römische Kaisergeschichte von ihren Anfängen unter Augustus bis in die eigene Gegenwart des Verfassers. Die vorliegende Ausgabe bietet einen revidierten lateinischen Text und eine neue Übersetzung. Im...
Amsterdam: B. R. Grüner BV, 1983. — 673 S. Anliegen und Ziel des vorliegenden Buches Der Aufbau des Agricola in der Forschung Aufbau-Ahalyse des Agricola Aufbau-Schema des Agricola Der Aufbau der Germania in der Forschung Aufbau-Analyse der Germania Aufbau-Schema der Germania Der Aufbau des Dialogue in der Forschung Aufbau-Analyse des Dialogus Aufbau-Schema des Dialogus Der...
М.: Издательство Московского университета, 1981. — 160 с. Предлагаемая читателю книга написана известным советским историком, профессором А. Г. Бокщаниным на основе курса лекций, читанных им на протяжении многих лет на кафедре истории Древнего мира исторического факультета Московского университета. Его лекции отличались широким охватом материала, образностью изложения и...
Учебное пособие. Для студентов специализирующихся на антич. истории и аспирантов-античников. — Белгород: Изд-во БГУ : Логия, 1998. — 97 с. Настоящее пособие предназначено в первую очередь студентам, специализирующимся на античной истории, а также аспирантам - античникам. Информация о сохранившихся и несохранившихся текстах охватывает VI в. до н.э. - VI в. н.э. и позволяет...
М. ; Л. : Издательство АН СССР, 1946. — 249 с. Предисловие. Тацит—историк и представитель культуры. Происхождение Тацита. Обстановка, в которой протекало его детство (Рим и его общество в I веке нашей эры). Школьные годы Тацита. Организация образования в его эпоху. Первое сочинение Тацита — «Диалог об ораторах». Жизнь и общественная деятельность Тацита до смерти Домициана (96...
Монография. — Псков: ПГПУ им. С.М. Кирова, 2010. — 122 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-87854-563-1. Монография посвящена источниковедческому анализу географических сведений о Персии, содержащихся в «Деяниях» Аммиана Марцеллина — одном из наиболее значительных научных сочинений позднеримской литературы. Книга адресована специалистам, аспирантам, студентам исторических факультетов,...
СПб: Издание В. О. Ковалевского, 1877. — 221 с. Англиканский священник и филолог-эссеист Уильям Лукас Коллинз (1815-1887) был известен как комментатор классических греческих и латинских авторов: помимо книги о жизни и историческом труде римского историка Тита Ливия (1870) у него были эссе о Гомере, Тите Ливии, Лукиане, Вергилии, Цицероне, Аристофане; в этих эссе он рассказывал...
Волгоград: Издательство Волгоградского государственного университета, 2002. — 214 с. — ISBN 5-85534-591-2 В монографии впервые проведено комплексное исследование восприятия римского наследия российской наукой в XIX — начале XX в. Определены основные стороны исторических концепций русских историков-романистов и дано им объяснение, выявлены основные темы и проблемы древнеримской...
М.: Индрик, 2002. – 506 с. – (Древнейшие источники по истории Восточной Европы).
ISBN 5-85759-174-0
В очередном выпуске свода «Древнейшие источники по истории Восточной Европы» публикуются памятники римской картографии, берущей свое начало от карты мира Марка Випсания Агриппы (I в. до н. э., сохранились лишь её описания), продолжившейся в карте Чёрного моря из Дура Европос...
М.: Индрик, 2002. — 506 с. — (Древнейшие источники по истории Восточной Европы). — ISBN 5-85759-174-0. В очередном выпуске свода «Древнейшие источники по истории Восточной Европы» публикуются памятники римской картографии, берущей свое начало от карты мира Марка Випсания Агриппы (I в. до н. э., сохранились лишь её описания), продолжившейся в карте Чёрного моря из Дура Европос...
М.: Индрик, 2011. — 504 с.: 11 илл. — (Древнейшие источники по истории Восточной Европы.) — ISBN: 978-5-91674-135-3. Данный выпуск свода «Древнейшие источники по истории Восточной Европы» посвящен историко-географическим сведениям, содержащимся в «Хоро-графии» Помпония Мелы — древнейшем из сохранившихся целиком географических сочинений римских авторов (середина I в. н. э.) — ив...
Второе исправленное издание. — Москва: Типо-литография В. Рихтер, 1900. — XLIII, 378 с. Предлагаемый русским читателям перевод должен восполнить собой значительный пробел нашей учёной и педагогической литературы. Исследование Тэна о Тите Ливие, бесспорно одно из самых талантливых произведений известного французского писателя, даёт гораздо больше, чем указывает его заглавие и...
М.: Типо-литография В. Рихтер, 1900. — 378 с. Предлагаемый русским читателям перевод должен восполнить собой значительный пробел нашей учёной и педагогической литературы. Исследование Тэна о Тите Ливии, бесспорно одно из самых талантливых произведений известного французского писателя, даёт гораздо больше, чем указывает его заглавие и представляет собой драгоценное пособие для...
М.: РГГУ, 2004. — 270 с. Книга посвящена теме, которая не была предметом специального интереса в отечественной историографии, а в зарубежной - при кажущемся обилии работ, посвященных Симмаху и Кассиодору, - не решалась на междисциплинарном уровне, предложенном автором. В монографии используются достижения последних десятилетий, сделанные мировой гуманитарной наукой в подходе к...
М.: РГГУ, 2004. — 270 с. — ISBN 5—7281-0515—7. Книга посвящена теме, которая не была предметом специального интереса в отечественной историографии, а в зарубежной - при кажущемся обилии работ, посвященных Симмаху и Кассиодору, - не решалась на междисциплинарном уровне, предложенном автором. В монографии используются достижения последних десятилетий, сделанные мировой...
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