Herodian's world : empire and emperors in the III century
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Herodian's world : empire and emperors in the III century
(Historiography of Rome and its empire / series editors, Carsten Hjort Lange, Jesper Majbom Madsen, v. 12)
Brill, c2022
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Description
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 view is all the more valuable because he is an outsider with respect to both court historiography, whose flattery he stigmatized, and to senatorial historians, represented mainly by Cassius Dio and by the biographies in the Historia Augusta. Nonetheless, Herodian has often been harshly criticized as a historian.
This volume aims to shed light on the different areas and themes in which his historical work moves - literary technique, political lexicon, religious conception, geographical space, economic, political, cultural and military themes - to better understand the relevance of his historiographical approach and his historical thought.
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 , or ? Thoughts on the Lexicon of the Emperor and the Principate in Herodian's Work
Agnes 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
Agnes Berenger
11 The Emperor, the Coin, the Soldiers
Pierfrancesco Porena
12 Landscape and Geography in Herodian's Work
Maria Ruiz de l'Arbol
13 Herodian and the Italic Peninsula
Laura Mecella
14 The Iranian World of Herodian
Omar Coloru
Index
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