Herodian's world : empire and emperors in the III century / edited by Alessandro Galimberti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Galimberti, Alessandro, editor.

Series:

Historiography of Rome and its empire ; 12.

Historiography of Rome and its Empire ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

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 outsider with respect to both court historiography, whose flattery he stigmatized, and to senatorial historians, represented mainly by Cassius Dio and by the biographies in the Historia Augusta . Nonetheless, Herodian has often been harshly criticized as a historian. This volume aims to shed light on the different areas and themes in which his historical work moves - literary technique, political lexicon, religious conception, geographical space, economic, political, cultural and military themes - to better understand the relevance of his historiographical approach and his historical thought.

Contents:

Introduction

Alessandro Galimberti

Part 1: Herodian's Historiographical Thought

1 Narrative Technique and Genre: Herodian the Novelist?

Adam Kemezis

2 Speeches and Speech Units in Herodian: The Limitations of Rhetoric?

Christopher Mallan

3 Caracalla on Stage. A Case Study in Herodian's Dramatic Historiography and Reader-Response

Mario Baumann

4 Herodian, Memory and Judgement: Emperors and Their Death

Olivier Hekster and Karine Laporte

5 Βασιλεύς, δέσπότης or ἄρχων? Thoughts on the Lexicon of the Emperor and the Principate in Herodian's Work

Agnès Arbo

6 Herodian and the Paideia of the Good Emperor: The Case of Severus Alexander

Umberto Roberto

7 Religion in Herodian

Part 2: Themes of Herodian Historiography: Politics, Army and Geography

8 The demos in Herodian

Daniela Motta

9 The Attitude of Herodian towards the Roman Senate

Pierangelo Buongiorno

10 Herodian's Perception of the Provincial Reality

Agnès Bérenger

11 The Emperor, the Coin, the Soldiers

Pierfrancesco Porena

12 Landscape and Geography in Herodian's Work

Maria Ruiz de l'Árbol

13 Herodian and the Italic Peninsula

Laura Mecella

14 The Iranian World of Herodian

Omar Coloru

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Galimberti, Alessandro Herodian's World

ISBN:

90-04-50045-6

OCLC:

1289370661

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004500457 DOI