Herodian's World : Empire and Emperors in the III Century.

Intro -- Contents -- Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Herodian's Historiographical Thought -- Chapter 1 Narrative Technique and Genre: Herodian the Novelist? -- Chapter 2 Speeches and Speech Units in Herodian: The Limitations of Rhetoric? -- Chapter 3 Caracalla on Stage: A Case Study in Herodian's Dramatic Historiography and Reader-Response -- Chapter 4 Herodian, Memory and Judgement: Emperors and Their Death -- Chapter 5 Βασιλεύς, δεσπότης or ἄρχων? Thoughts on the Lexicon of the Emperor and the Principate in Herodian's Work -- Chapter 6 Herodian and the Paideia of the Good Emperor: The Case of Severus Alexander -- Chapter 7 Religion in Herodian -- Part 2 Themes of Herodian's Historiography: Politics, Army and Geography -- Chapter 8 The demos in Herodian -- Chapter 9 The Attitude of Herodian towards the Roman Senate -- Chapter 10 Herodian's Perception of the Provincial Reality -- Chapter 11 The Emperor, the Coin, the Soldiers -- Chapter 12 Landscape and Geography in Herodian's Work -- Chapter 13 Herodian and the Italic Peninsula -- Chapter 14 The Iranian World of Herodian -- Index.

The volume collects fourteen essays on Herodian that investigate the most important aspects of his historiography: literature, politics, economy, religion and warfare.

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