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Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire
Language: en
Pages: 405
Authors: Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-20 - Publisher: BRILL

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This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through
Digressions in Classical Historiography
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Mario Baumann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book
Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Adam M. Kemezis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores how Greek authors who witnessed sudden political change reacted by re-imagining the larger narrative of the Roman past.
Foreign Groups in Rome During the First Centuries of the Empire
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: George La Piana
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Commodus
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: O. Hekster
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-15 - Publisher: BRILL

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The emperor Commodus (AD 180-192) has commonly been portrayed as an insane madman, whose reign marked the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire. Indeed, the