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...
Brill, 2022. — 312 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 458). This volume aims to study Silius’ poem as an important step in the development of the Roman historical epic tradition. The Punica is analyzed as a 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 on its...
Cornell University Press, 1998. — 298 p. 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 a new grist for skepticism. This is the first book on...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 256 p. Polybius and Roman Imperialism explore 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...
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...
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...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2003. — 376 p. This volume establishes the contents of Eusebius of Caesarea’s library. It relates the library’s history, including the role of Origen of Alexandria, discusses Eusebius’ use of sources, and examines the specific Hellenic, Jewish, and Christian works available at Caesarea.
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...
Leiden: Brill, 2007. — 326 p. 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 invasions. Faced with these...
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...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. — 147 p. 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 religious outlook and his use of...
Brill, 2021. — 340 p. 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...
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...
Gorgias Press, 2013. — 380 p. A collection of articles by Richard E. Mitchell presents 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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Wiley-Blackwel, 2023. — 1312 p. The Tacitus Encyclopedia is the only complete reference of its kind in the field of Tacitean studies. Spanning two volumes, this unprecedented resource contains more than 1,000 entries covering every person and place named in all extant works of Roman historian and politician Tacitus (c. 56-120 CE). Written by an international collaboration of...
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 conceptualizations of history...
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 disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had hoped for the letters to convey all of the political drama...
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....
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 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...
Gorgias Press, 2013. — 376 p. Ammianus’ treatment of the emotion of anger reveals as much, if not more, about his education, values, beliefs, and 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...
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....
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. 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...
Reissue. — Sandpiper Books Ltd., 1997. — 392 p. 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 primacy at...
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...
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