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Reconfiguring the imperial past: narrative patterns and historical interpretation in Herodian's History of the empire
(Brill, 2022)
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. ...
The proems of Plutarch’s lives and historiography
(Dept. of Classics, University of Durham, 2017)
In this article I focus on Plutarch’s prologues to the Alexander–Caesar, Nicias–Crassus,
and Theseus–Romulus books, all of which discuss Plutarch’s biographical method in relation
to history. I suggest that in these ...