Browsing by Subject "Herodian"
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Digressions in Herodian’s History of the Empire
(De Gruyter, 2024)This chapter offers a comprehensive examination of the narratological presence and role of digressions in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire. It contends that Herodian’s digressions do not simply ...
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Group Minds in Ancient Greek Historiography and the Ancient Greek Novel: Herodian's History and chariton's Callirhoe
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-01)This article explores Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire alongside Chariton’s novel Callirhoe with an eye to how the minds of collective entities are represented and function in the two narratives. It argues that ...
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Group minds in ancient narrative: Herodian’s history of the Roman Empire as a case study
(Brill, 2023)The present article adopts a cognitive approach to examine the representation of group minds in ancient narrative and show the specific purposes to which they are put. Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire, a work that ...
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Herodian and Cassius Dio: a study of Herodian's compositional devices
(2020)Herodian applies to Dio’s text displacement, omission, and modification of context in order to bring out themes and ideas that are essential to his own understanding of the post-Marcus world.
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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. ...
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Φήμη in Herodian’s roman history
(De Gruyter, 2023)This article offers a usage study of the word φήμη throughout Herodian’s Roman History. It sets Herodian’s practice in a broader literary picture that includes other historians, but also epic and the novel, and then suggests ...