Historiography Archive
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Comparing comparisons: ancient East and West
Posted on June 12, 2013 | No CommentsWhat is comparative history good for? Does it pose special challenges? In our time of accelerating globalization, are we ready to embrace a new inter-discipline, Comparative Classics? -
THUCYDIDES CONSTRUCTS HIS SPEAKERS: THE CASE OF DIODOTUS
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsIn a nutshell: there is no way to avoid the conclusion that Thucydides himself is responsible for the most important parts of his speakers' speeches, that is, that for all practical purposes he composed them. -
A canon for the Bronze Age?
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsCatalogues and databases which are easily accessible to all interested parties regardless of their geographical location, occupation, background or purpose, provide a level playing field for research, publication and debate in the archaeology of the bronze age. The establishment of a canon of reliable, illustrated documentation of as many facets of the Bronze Age as are required, is a prerequisite to the future of our understanding of the Bronze Age. -
Myth and History in Oikist Traditions: Archias of Syracuse
Posted on February 17, 2013 | No CommentsIn this paper I shall briefly introduce an oikist tradition that grew around the foundation of Syracuse in the middle of the eighth century BCE. -
Was Classical Sparta a military society?
Posted on January 6, 2013 | No CommentsTe potency of the military image of Sparta during the twentieth century, supported by powerful modern political analogies, helps to explain why this has been one of the few notions that has remained untransformed by the significant reassessments of the ?hara?ter o? Spartan so?iety produ?ed ?y the last generation o? s?holarly resear?h. -
Instructive Irony in Herodotus: The Socles Scene
Posted on December 27, 2012 | No CommentsBy contrasting Corinth -
The Menelaion: A Local Manifestation of a Pan-Hellenic Phenomenon
Posted on December 11, 2012 | No CommentsSparta, the mythological birthplace and home of the Homeric heroine, was alleged to have worshiped her at two sites, at a shrine within the polis and at a shrine several kilometers outside the polis.8 We know very little about the former shrine, but the latter has been archaeologically attested; the partial walls and foundations of a fifth-century BCE monument to Helen of Sparta and her husband Menelaos, known as the Menelaion, have been recovered on a ridge near the west bank of the Eurotas. -
Spartacus Mythistoricus: Winning Spartacus into the Mythical
Posted on December 11, 2012 | No CommentsThe Spartacus represented in these media is not the same Spartacus that the ancient sources wrote about. The representation of Spartacus' history has changed dramatically over the course of time and has, in fact, -
Boudica’s Speeches in Tacitus and Dio
Posted on December 10, 2012 | No CommentsSome recent scholarship has argued that ancient Roman historians inevitably cast foreigners as inferior and thereby justified Roman imperialism and colonialism. -
The Evolution of the Study of the Hellenistic Period
Posted on December 5, 2012 | No CommentsTo this day, the texts of ancient historians such as Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the historical phenomenon of the rise of Rome 'from village to Empire,' are considered fundamental cultural monuments of European civilization
