J E Lendon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5626464 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J E Lendon |
| NOMBRES | J E |
| APELLIDO | Lendon |
| FIRMA | LENDON J E |
| AFILIACIONES | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1920 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
That Tyrant, Persuasion
Elke Hartmann, Sven Page, Anabelle Thurn (Hrsgg.)
As a critical journal for all classical studies, the GNOMON fosters the links between the distinct classical disciplines. It has thus an exceptional position among the classical review journals and allows familiarization with research and publications in neighbouring disciplines. The reviews address an international readership from all fields in classical studies. The GNOMON publishes reviews in German, English, French, Italian and Latin
Soldiers and Ghosts
What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, J. E. Lendon surveys a millennium of warfare to discover how militaries change—and don’t change—and how an army’s greatness depends on its use of the past. Noting this was an age that witnessed few technological advances, J. E. Lendon shows us that the most s…
Historians without history
“In history, as in life critically considered, truth rests not on possibility nor on plausibility but on probability.” Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff, The Modern Researcher (3rd edn, 1977: 133) / This essay weeps at the intellectual motion this volume exemplifies: the triumph of what now masquerades as “Roman historiography,” the academic study of the ancient Roman historians as a discipline sundered from Roman history, the study of what happe…
Athens and Sparta and the Coming of the Peloponnesian War
Introduction It was three days' walk from the borders of Attica to the crest of the vale of Laconia, from Athens, the city wreathed in violet, to Lacedaemon, clad in mountains and in bronze. The wayfarer from Athens left behind him the pandemonium of lucre, naval empire, and democracy, and entered the hushed streets of Sparta, where by an ancient law no coin might be found, where boys were schooled to silence and men to speak rarely and shortly, …
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles
Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open…
The legitimacy of the Roman Emperor
The Emperor
When Augustus learned of his daughter Julia’s adulteries, he withdrew into seclusion, overwhelmed, observers thought, by shame. Shame at his own disgusting lusts and repulsive appearance might explain Tiberius’ lurking on Capri.Even Nero’s murder of Corbulo at Cenchreae could be put down to a fastidious unwillingness to be seen by his distinguished general while dressed to play the lyre.Conjectures like these, whatever their worth, emphasize the …
Title Pages
Honour and Influence in the Roman World
No rich man am I, said the orator Dio Chrysostom to his townsmen. His father had relied upon his influence in managing the family’s financial affairs, trusting to it to ensure that no one would controvert his claims; on his father’s death Dio found it very difficult to reclaim money in other men’s hands. Dio’s admission transports his reader from a mental cosmos in which power depends largely on money to one where money depends as largely upon po…
The Roman Army
Ancient observers describe the Roman army as the third essential constituency of the imperial system, with the aristocracy and the Roman plebs. Perhaps, indeed, the army could somehow be imagined as the plebs of Rome in arms, conferring ideological legitimacy on the emperor at the senate’s side. But the army’s fundamental role in empire is perfectly clear: the Roman empire depended, in the last resort, upon violent force, and so, in the last reso…
Appendix
Dedication
Officials
The attractions of holding a high post in the Roman imperial government were manifold. Who would not be overjoyed to ruin, flog, or execute his more irritating acquaintances? ‘Comandare e meglio di fottere’, as the Sicilians say. An armed guard and the colour of authority could advance almost any end. ‘I can have whomever I want clubbed to death!’ an imagined governor gloats.1 One of the roads the rods of an official cleared most frequently was t…
Agamemnon’s Empire
According to Synesius, the peasants of North Africa thought that Agamemnon ruled the Roman empire. This was a strangely wise mistake. For just as the values of Greeks and Romans of the empire recalled in many ways the values of the warlike aristocracies from which they arose, so too did rulership always have a Homeric strain to it. Honour defined the Homeric king’s position: a king might say, ‘Be king equally with me, take half my honour.’The kin…
Abbreviations
Empire of Honour
Jon Lendon offers a new interpretation of how the Roman empire worked in the first four centuries AD. A despotism rooted in force and fear enjoyed widespread support among the ruling classes of the provinces on the basis of an aristocratic culture of honour shared by rulers and ruled. The competitive Roman and Greek aristocrats of the empire conceived of their relative standing in terms of public esteem or honour, and conceived of their cities - …
Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity
War and society
In the Peloponnesian War Athens is found hiring barbarian specialists, light infantry from Thrace. The conception of warfare as a collation of crafts had, it is attractive to suppose, a number of historical consequences. Military excellence as craft could also undermine civic harmony by reducing the dependence of the rich citizen upon his neighbours. By the third century Rome was a full member of the Hellenistic cosmos, trading and treating and f…
Empire of Honour
Jon Lendon offers a new interpretation of how the Roman empire worked in the first four centuries AD. A despotism rooted in force and fear enjoyed widespread support among the ruling classes of the provinces on the basis of an aristocratic culture of honour shared by rulers and ruled. The competitive Roman and Greek aristocrats of the empire conceived of their relative standing in terms of public esteem or honour, and conceived of their cities - …
War and society
In the Peloponnesian War Athens is found hiring barbarian specialists, light infantry from Thrace. The conception of warfare as a collation of crafts had, it is attractive to suppose, a number of historical consequences. Military excellence as craft could also undermine civic harmony by reducing the dependence of the rich citizen upon his neighbours. By the third century Rome was a full member of the Hellenistic cosmos, trading and treating and f…
Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity
The Emperor
When Augustus learned of his daughter Julia’s adulteries, he withdrew into seclusion, overwhelmed, observers thought, by shame. Shame at his own disgusting lusts and repulsive appearance might explain Tiberius’ lurking on Capri.Even Nero’s murder of Corbulo at Cenchreae could be put down to a fastidious unwillingness to be seen by his distinguished general while dressed to play the lyre.Conjectures like these, whatever their worth, emphasize the …
Title Pages
Honour and Influence in the Roman World
No rich man am I, said the orator Dio Chrysostom to his townsmen. His father had relied upon his influence in managing the family’s financial affairs, trusting to it to ensure that no one would controvert his claims; on his father’s death Dio found it very difficult to reclaim money in other men’s hands. Dio’s admission transports his reader from a mental cosmos in which power depends largely on money to one where money depends as largely upon po…
The Roman Army
Ancient observers describe the Roman army as the third essential constituency of the imperial system, with the aristocracy and the Roman plebs. Perhaps, indeed, the army could somehow be imagined as the plebs of Rome in arms, conferring ideological legitimacy on the emperor at the senate’s side. But the army’s fundamental role in empire is perfectly clear: the Roman empire depended, in the last resort, upon violent force, and so, in the last reso…
Appendix
Dedication
Officials
The attractions of holding a high post in the Roman imperial government were manifold. Who would not be overjoyed to ruin, flog, or execute his more irritating acquaintances? ‘Comandare e meglio di fottere’, as the Sicilians say. An armed guard and the colour of authority could advance almost any end. ‘I can have whomever I want clubbed to death!’ an imagined governor gloats.1 One of the roads the rods of an official cleared most frequently was t…
Agamemnon’s Empire
According to Synesius, the peasants of North Africa thought that Agamemnon ruled the Roman empire. This was a strangely wise mistake. For just as the values of Greeks and Romans of the empire recalled in many ways the values of the warlike aristocracies from which they arose, so too did rulership always have a Homeric strain to it. Honour defined the Homeric king’s position: a king might say, ‘Be king equally with me, take half my honour.’The kin…
Abbreviations
Empire of Honour
Jon Lendon offers a new interpretation of how the Roman empire worked in the first four centuries AD. A despotism rooted in force and fear enjoyed widespread support among the ruling classes of the provinces on the basis of an aristocratic culture of honour shared by rulers and ruled. The competitive Roman and Greek aristocrats of the empire conceived of their relative standing in terms of public esteem or honour, and conceived of their cities - …
The legitimacy of the Roman Emperor
Athens and Sparta and the Coming of the Peloponnesian War
Introduction It was three days' walk from the borders of Attica to the crest of the vale of Laconia, from Athens, the city wreathed in violet, to Lacedaemon, clad in mountains and in bronze. The wayfarer from Athens left behind him the pandemonium of lucre, naval empire, and democracy, and entered the hushed streets of Sparta, where by an ancient law no coin might be found, where boys were schooled to silence and men to speak rarely and shortly, …
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles
Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open…
Historians without history
“In history, as in life critically considered, truth rests not on possibility nor on plausibility but on probability.” Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff, The Modern Researcher (3rd edn, 1977: 133) / This essay weeps at the intellectual motion this volume exemplifies: the triumph of what now masquerades as “Roman historiography,” the academic study of the ancient Roman historians as a discipline sundered from Roman history, the study of what happe…
Soldiers and Ghosts
What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, J. E. Lendon surveys a millennium of warfare to discover how militaries change—and don’t change—and how an army’s greatness depends on its use of the past. Noting this was an age that witnessed few technological advances, J. E. Lendon shows us that the most s…
Elke Hartmann, Sven Page, Anabelle Thurn (Hrsgg.)
As a critical journal for all classical studies, the GNOMON fosters the links between the distinct classical disciplines. It has thus an exceptional position among the classical review journals and allows familiarization with research and publications in neighbouring disciplines. The reviews address an international readership from all fields in classical studies. The GNOMON publishes reviews in German, English, French, Italian and Latin
That Tyrant, Persuasion
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