Ancient authors in the Synesius’ speech «De Regno» [PDF]
Религия, церковь, общество, 2014 The article is devoted to the works of the ancient citation in the speech by Synesius «De Regno» This speech (399) is devoted to the situation in the Roman Empire at the end of 4th century AD In the text he used a wide range of ancient sources (7 ...
Przhigodzkaja Olga Vladimirovna
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Quelques remarques sur le thème de la démesure dans le livre II des Histoires d’Hérodote
Kentron, 2006 In this article, I intend to analyse the image of the Pharaoh that is conveyed in the second book of Herodotus’ Histories, through the study of several anecdotes. The first aspect of this image – and one that seems obvious
Typhaine Haziza
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A brief remark on the philhellenic policy of Amasis at the emporion Naucratis [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2022 The Greek emporia (Al Mina, Naucratis, etc.) were usually founded on the sea shores or in the estuaries of large rivers because they served as important trade routes to the hinterland.
Květa Smoláriková
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Herodotus magister vitae, or: Herodotus and God in the Protestant Reformation
Histos, 2015 During the sixteenth century Herodotus’ Histories reached new audiences throughout Europe, in Greek, Latin, and the vernaculars. This period saw the emergence of an extensive scholarly literature on Herodotus, particularly in German-speaking lands ...
Anthony Ellis
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Herodotus on Bactria between Achaemenid Mobility and Alexander’s campaign. Some reflections [PDF]
Studia Hercynia, 2021 Thanks to a recent monographic study by Chiara Matarese we are now able to understand more clearly both the reasons and the goals of a phenomenon, that of the so-called ‘deportations’ characteristic of the Achaemenid empire.
Marco Ferrario
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The Possibility of the Existence of An Older Ancestral Land for the People of Parsua Based on the Contents of Written Archaeological Sources and Historical-Mythological Names [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخی, 2022 Based on the data extracted from Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions, this is a famous fact that the report of Shalmaneser III is the earliest text, which has mentioned the political presence of a group of people named Parsuans as the league of 27 rulers" in
Sorena Firouzi +2 more
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History and hyponoia: Herodotus and Early Literary Criticism
Histos, 2012 This article addresses two problematic passages in which Herodotus discusses Homeric poetry (2.116 and 2.53). These passages may make more sense on the hypothesis that Herodotus was familiar with some of the more radical assumptions and methods of ...
Benjamin Sammons
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Samian logos in Herodotus’s Histories [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношенияThe article is devoted to the study of the image of the island of Samos in Herodotus’s work “History”. Particular emphasis is placed on assessing the role of Samos in the overall picture of Herodotus’s historical narrative.
Good, Ivan O.
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Waiting for Solon: Audience Expectations in Herodotus
Histos, 2015 In this article, I focus not so much on what Solon actually says and does in his conversation with Croesus, but on what Herodotus’ readers, as well as Croesus himself, think Solon might say or do. I argue that Herodotus uses analogous episodes, those of
David Branscome
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The Story of Psammenitus from Herodotus to Walter Benjamin
HistosFollowing a thread in Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Storyteller’, the article gives sustained attention to a comparatively understudied tale in Herodotus’ Histories, the embarrassment of the Egyptian king Psammenitus by Cambyses at 3.14.
Alexander Christensen
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