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Open Access Publication, available at https://brill.com/view/title/58967.
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(see https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-demosthenes-9780198713852) As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the... more
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As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the twilight of the city's independence, and is today a primary source for its history and society during that period. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes sets out to explore the many facets of his life, work, and time, giving particular weight to elucidating the settings and contexts of his activities, as well as some of the key themes dealt with in his speeches, and thereby illustrating the interplay and mutual influence between his rhetoric and the environment from which it emerged.
The volume's thirty-five chapters are authored by experts in the field and offer both comprehensive coverage and an up-to-date reference point for the issues and problems encountered when approaching the speeches in particular: they not only showcase how Demosthenes' rhetoric was profoundly influenced by Athenian reality, but also explore its reception from Demosthenes' own day right up until the present and how his presentation of his world has subsequently shaped our view of it. The wide range of expertise and the different scholarly traditions represented are a vivid demonstration of the richness and diversity of current Demosthenic studies and the contribution the volume makes to enriching our knowledge of the life and work of one of the most prominent figures of ancient Greece will be of significance to a wide readership interested in Athenian history, society, rhetoric, politics, and law.
As a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the twilight of the city's independence, and is today a primary source for its history and society during that period. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes sets out to explore the many facets of his life, work, and time, giving particular weight to elucidating the settings and contexts of his activities, as well as some of the key themes dealt with in his speeches, and thereby illustrating the interplay and mutual influence between his rhetoric and the environment from which it emerged.
The volume's thirty-five chapters are authored by experts in the field and offer both comprehensive coverage and an up-to-date reference point for the issues and problems encountered when approaching the speeches in particular: they not only showcase how Demosthenes' rhetoric was profoundly influenced by Athenian reality, but also explore its reception from Demosthenes' own day right up until the present and how his presentation of his world has subsequently shaped our view of it. The wide range of expertise and the different scholarly traditions represented are a vivid demonstration of the richness and diversity of current Demosthenic studies and the contribution the volume makes to enriching our knowledge of the life and work of one of the most prominent figures of ancient Greece will be of significance to a wide readership interested in Athenian history, society, rhetoric, politics, and law.
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DESCRIZIONE INDEX - Samuel C. Zinsli – Gunther Martin, Vorwort - Cécile Bertrand-Dagenbach, La table de Didius Julianus - Bruno Bleckmann, Historia Augusta, Zonaras und Herodian - Hartwin Brandt, Epigraphisch-numismatische... more
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- Samuel C. Zinsli – Gunther Martin, Vorwort
- Cécile Bertrand-Dagenbach, La table de Didius Julianus
- Bruno Bleckmann, Historia Augusta, Zonaras und Herodian
- Hartwin Brandt, Epigraphisch-numismatische Kommentarnachträge zu den Jahren 238/239
- Diederik Burgersdijk, Cicero and the Historia Augusta
- Michel Christol, Amis et Juristes dans l’Histoire Auguste
- Daniël den Hengst, Ammianus and the Historia Augusta. A shadow play
- Romain Loriol, Les présages dans la Vie de Sévère : un sous-texte ironique
- Marc Mayer i Olivé, Eppur si muove : la aparente inmovilidad de Antonino Pío en la Historia Augusta (AP 7, 12)
- Agnès Molinier Arbo, L’histoire peut-elle se répéter ? Le devenir de Rome selon l’auteur de l’Histoire Auguste
- Felix Mundt, Vopiscus und die Sibylle: die HistoriA Augusta als literatursatire
- Dennis Pausch, Saevior Domitiano, impurior Nerone. form und funktion von schmähungen in der Historia Augusta
- Benoît Rossignol, De Lyon à l’Arabie… notes sur Clodius Albinus, sa carrière, et ses soutiens dans l’Histoire Auguste
- Timo Stickler, Die blemmyer in der Historia Augusta
- Massimiliano Vitiello, Better a senex than principes pueri: senatorial ideology in the election of emperor Tacitus
- Giuseppe Zecchini, L’Historia Augusta e l’expeditio germanica di Massimino il Trace
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INDEX
- Samuel C. Zinsli – Gunther Martin, Vorwort
- Cécile Bertrand-Dagenbach, La table de Didius Julianus
- Bruno Bleckmann, Historia Augusta, Zonaras und Herodian
- Hartwin Brandt, Epigraphisch-numismatische Kommentarnachträge zu den Jahren 238/239
- Diederik Burgersdijk, Cicero and the Historia Augusta
- Michel Christol, Amis et Juristes dans l’Histoire Auguste
- Daniël den Hengst, Ammianus and the Historia Augusta. A shadow play
- Romain Loriol, Les présages dans la Vie de Sévère : un sous-texte ironique
- Marc Mayer i Olivé, Eppur si muove : la aparente inmovilidad de Antonino Pío en la Historia Augusta (AP 7, 12)
- Agnès Molinier Arbo, L’histoire peut-elle se répéter ? Le devenir de Rome selon l’auteur de l’Histoire Auguste
- Felix Mundt, Vopiscus und die Sibylle: die HistoriA Augusta als literatursatire
- Dennis Pausch, Saevior Domitiano, impurior Nerone. form und funktion von schmähungen in der Historia Augusta
- Benoît Rossignol, De Lyon à l’Arabie… notes sur Clodius Albinus, sa carrière, et ses soutiens dans l’Histoire Auguste
- Timo Stickler, Die blemmyer in der Historia Augusta
- Massimiliano Vitiello, Better a senex than principes pueri: senatorial ideology in the election of emperor Tacitus
- Giuseppe Zecchini, L’Historia Augusta e l’expeditio germanica di Massimino il Trace
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Gunther Martin – Jana Grusková, Facing the Plague and the Goths: A New Passage from the Scythica Vindobonensia (Codex Vindobonensis hist. gr. 73, fol. 192r, lines 13–30), Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 62 (2022) 437–493.
See https://grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/grbs/article/view/16854/7521more
Newly deciphered lines of the Vienna palimpsest yield previously unknown information about the Gothic campaign and offer a contemporary glimpse into the catastrophic events of the mid-third century AD, in particular the ‘Plague of... more
Newly deciphered lines of the Vienna palimpsest yield previously unknown information about the Gothic campaign and offer a contemporary glimpse into the catastrophic events of the mid-third century AD, in particular the ‘Plague of Cyprian’. For the article see https://grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/grbs/article/view/16854/7521
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The article is available under the link 10.1553/anzeiger153-1s69
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Verbal interaction is crucial in Sophocles’ Philoctetes, as the play’s conflict is fought almost exclusively by means of words. However, language is portrayed as failing on all levels: from mere articulation to agreement about the meaning... more
Verbal interaction is crucial in Sophocles’ Philoctetes, as the play’s conflict is fought almost exclusively by means of words. However, language is portrayed as failing on all levels: from mere articulation to agreement about the meaning of words and to cooperation in conversation. At the same time, there seems to be a negative correlation between the production of articulated or even rhetorical utterances and the speakers’ achieving of their aims. This paper argues that in Philoctetes Sophocles illustrates the conditions and the social embeddedness of language use, transcending fifth-century philosophical and rhetorical approaches to the matter. The focus on language helps to reframe the conflict underlying the play, from being predominantly moral to being social in nature.
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For the entire volume, s. https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1440.
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In Euripides’ Hecuba, both the scholia and modern interpreters detect a failure of communication in the farewell scene between the protagonist and Polyxena – though the scholiast names Polyxena as the source of the non-dialogue, whereas... more
In Euripides’ Hecuba, both the scholia and modern interpreters detect a failure of communication in the farewell scene between the protagonist and Polyxena – though the scholiast names Polyxena as the source of the non-dialogue, whereas the modern commentators claim that neither character is engaging. This paper aims, firstly, by a slight redistribution of lines, to restore coherence to the dialogue. Secondly, it argues that it is Hecuba’s rather than Polyxena’s conversational behaviour that impedes the smooth progress of the dialogue. Polyxena is even the one trying to reintegrate her mother into the dialogue. Her linguistic behaviour thus matches her composed and ‘heroic’ overall conduct.
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Research Interests: Ancient Historiography, Roman military history, Ancient Greek Historiography, Fragmentary Greek Historiography, Crisis of the 3rd Century, and 5 more3rd Century AD, Barbarian Invasions, Barbarians societies, Late Antiquity, Ethnogenesis, Funerary World, Goths, Vandals, Sueves, Alans, Roman Crisis of the Third Century, and Publius Herennius Dexippus
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This paper (accessible freely on the journal's website, cf. the link above) completes the first presentation of the new historical fragments on Gothic incursions into the Balkans in the middle of the 3rd century AD. Coming most probably... more
This paper (accessible freely on the journal's website, cf. the link above) completes the first presentation of the new historical fragments on Gothic incursions into the Balkans in the middle of the 3rd century AD. Coming most probably from the Scythica by Dexippus of Athens, the fragments have been preserved as palimpsest in the Vienna manuscript Vind. Hist. gr. 73. The paper contains a preliminary transcription, translation and analysis of one of the eight extant pages, fol. 195v; processed spectral images are included. The account of a Gothic attack under Cniva on a Thracian town described on fol. 195r (already published) is being continued on this new page, detailing in particular the strategem that led to the capture of the city wall. The information given corroborates the previous assumption that the town is Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv). The new fragment may thus add to the extant abridged reports on the seizure of this town in 250 AD.
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This paper (accessible freely on the journal's website, cf. the link above) presents the first transcription of a further palimpsest page of the Scythica Vindobonensia, the new fragments on the Gothic incursions on the Balkans in the 3rd... more
This paper (accessible freely on the journal's website, cf. the link above) presents the first transcription of a further palimpsest page of the Scythica Vindobonensia, the new fragments on the Gothic incursions on the Balkans in the 3rd century AD, probably written by Dexippus of Athens. The new text (fol. 194r of ms. Vind. Hist. gr. 73) apparently tells us about the hitherto unknown reaction of the Greeks on the news of the seizure by Cniva of Philippopolis (in AD 250), i.e. the organisation of the defence against a possible invasion. A second section reports how a Gothic leader, probably the newly discovered Ostrogotha, decides to try and compete with Cniva's achievement, in an attempt to restore his own reputation among the Goths, and how he sets out to attack Decius and his army.
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in: E. Eidinow/J. Kindt/R. Osborne: Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion, Cambridge 2016, 281-300 (see link above).
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Ch. Abbt, N. Niazi (eds.), Der Vieltuer und die Demokratie. Politische und philosophische Aspekt von Allotrio- und Polypragmosyne, Basel 2017, 157–172
Ch. Abbt, N. Niazi (eds.), Der Vieltuer und die Demokratie. Politische und philosophische Aspekt von Allotrio- und Polypragmosyne, Basel 2017, 157–172
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This paper presents a preliminary edition of two pages of a hitherto unknown historical text, recently discovered in four palimpsest folios of the Vienna ms. Hist. gr. 73. The two pages, deciphered with the use of spectral imaging, deal... more
This paper presents a preliminary edition of two pages of a hitherto unknown historical text, recently discovered in four palimpsest folios of the Vienna ms. Hist. gr. 73. The two pages, deciphered with the use of spectral imaging, deal with the preparation for the attack on Greece during an invasion of “Scythians”, which can be identified with the so-called Herulian invasion of 267/8 A. D. into the Roman Empire, and the defensive measures taken against the invaders at Thermopylae. The recovered fragment sheds new light on the course of events and raises interesting prosopographic questions. On the grounds of content and style, there is reason to believe that it is part of the Scythica by the contemporary historian Dexippus of Athens.