Ruthenia classica aetatis novae : a collection of works by Russian scholars in ancient Greek and Roman history / edited by Andreas Mehl, Alexander V. Makhlayuk, Oleg Gabelko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mehl, Andreas, editor.

Makhlai͡uk, A. V., editor.

Gabelko, O. L., editor.

Series:

Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)

Ancient History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History.

Greece.

Rome--History.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013.

Summary:

The e-book presents research mostly done by younger Russian scholars of ancient history to a readership that does not speak and read the Russian language. The articles cover a wide range of time and topics: Greek history from the archaic far into the Hellenistic period and Roman history from the republic to the empire - politics, finance, ideology, constitution, society with prosopography, and population. By sketching the peculiarities of research in antiquity in pre-revolutionary and socialist Russia and the conditions under which post-socialist classicists and historians work, an introductor

Contents:

CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; ILLUSTRATIONS; CLASSICAL STUDIES IN RUSSIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: A COLLECTIVE PORTRAIT IN CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT; ANCIENT GREEK LEGISLATION ON SICILY: . THE LAWS OF CHARONDAS; HERODOTUS AND THE PHILAIDS; HERODOTUS AND GREEK MEDISM; ON THE FINANCIAL RELATIONS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE GREEK CITIES IN ASIA MINOR: THE CASE OF SYNTAXIS; A FRAGMENT OF AN EARLY HELLENISTIC EGYPTIAN CLEPSYDRA FROM THE STATE HERMITAGE, ST. PETERSBURG (INV. NO. ДВ 2507А): A NATIVE VIEW OF EARLY MACEDONIAN RULE IN EGYPT

THE ELEPHANT CHARIOTS AT DAPHNE: AN ASPECT OF THE IDEOLOGICAL POLICY OF ANTIOCHUS IVTHE MACEDONIAN ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY OF HARPALOI-POLEMAIOI FROM BEROEA; SOME CRITICAL NOTES ON PETER BRUNT'S .RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CONDUCT OF THE ROMAN CENSUS; SULLA IN THE EAST: VENUS CONTRA DIONYSUM; MITHRIDATES AND SERTORIUS; A HISTORICAL AND EPIGRAPHIC COMMENTARY ON HYPSICRATEIA'S EPITAPH; THE ROMAN CITIZENRY IN ARMS: THE REPUBLICAN BACKGROUND AND TRADITIONS OF THE IMPERIAL ARMY

THE CONCEPTS OF 'DEMOCRACY' AND 'TYRANNY' IN THE SPEECH OF AGRIPPA IN CASSIUS DIO 52. 1-13: CONVENTIONAL RHETORIC OR POLITICAL THEORY?CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-515-10392-9