Herodian
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Edited by:
Mario Baumann
About this book
Herodian (active c. 250 CE) was the author of an eight-book Greek history of the Empire from the reign of Commodus (180-192) to the civil wars of the year 238. It has always been a vital historical document, but recent scholarship also recognizes its importance for the development of Greek historiography. As part of this new interest, this collection of articles by leading and emerging scholars addresses important new questions about Herodian’s work and cultural context. These include literary studies of his generic identity, his relationship to earlier and later authors and his techniques of creating time and space; applications of communication and memory theory to his narrative; exploration of his cultural attitudes to the heritage of Greek paideia; his cultural identity and evocation of iconic figures from the past; and his political ideology and conception of the Empire’s functioning and dysfunction. Herodian emerges as a revealing witness of his own times, but also a talented literary artist and a perceptive analyst of the political upheavals through which he lived. These studies will be valuable to all scholars interested in the literary and cultural aspects of Rome’s transition from the High Empire to Late Antiquity.
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Frontmatter
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Editors’ Preface
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - I Herodian’s Narrative: Sources, Genre and Readers
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Tra storia e propaganda: Erodiano, Pertinace e Settimio Severo
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Mélange et variété des genres chez Hérodien : le cas de Julianus
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Herodian as Real and Fictional Source for the Historia Augusta
63 - II Communities and Communication in Herodian
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Vain Ambition, Futile Imitation: The Pattern of Failing ‘Philosophers’ in Herodian’s Narrative
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Memory and Emulation in Herodian’s Roman History after Marcus
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News and Messages in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire
139 - III Time and Space in Herodian’s Text
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Zwischen pragmatischer Geschichtsschreibung und Biographie: Herodian und ein neues Zeitmaß
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The Concept of Kairos in Herodian’s Ab Excessu Divi Marci
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The Spatial Dimension of Politics in Herodian’s Historia
205 - IV Greek Tradition in Herodian
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Herodian’s History and the Distant Past
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Herodian’s Roman Empire: “An Alien Monarchy”?
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Longing for a Good Ruler: pothos and Echoes of Alexander the Great in Herodian
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Herodian on Stasis
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General Index
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