Frances Pownall
Biographic Data
| ID | 1429052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Pownall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Pownall |
| SIGNATURE | POWNALL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ptolemy and Aristobulus
As the principal sources of Arrian, Ptolemy and Aristobulus occupy a privileged position in the historiographical tradition on Alexander, although their histories survive only in fragments. Both wrote eyewitness accounts of Alexander’s expedition, and offer valuable insight as to how Alexander spun some of the more controversial aspects to his contemporaries. Ptolemy was a high-ranking officer, and so his history focused on the military events, i…
Stesimbrotos of Thasos
Stesimbrotos of Thasos was a fifth‐century rhapsode and literary figure. In addition to works on mystery cults and Homeric problems, he is attested to have written a treatise on contemporary fifth‐century Athenian politicians. Although the nature and political stance of his treatise remain elusive, it was highly influential upon the later literary and historiographical tradition.
Ch. 3. Contemporary Historiography and Ptolemy’s Creation of an ‘Egyptian’ Alexander
In the wake of the premature death of Alexander the Great, contemporary historiography began to reconfigure his image in response to the aims and ambitions of the various Successors. Ptolemy I was arguably the most successful in reworking the events of Alexander’s campaign in service to his political and military agenda. In particular, Ptolemy took care to excise all the non-Egyptian elements from his narrative of Alexander’s consultation of the …
Diodorus on the Fourth Century
Peter J. Rhodes. Herodotus
Matthew Simonton. Classical Greek Oligarchy
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Cassius Dio and the Imitatio Alexandri
Cassius Dio’s narrative of two episodes involving imitations of Alexander the Great (Caracalla’s crossing of the Hellespont and the mysterious appearance of an Alexander-daimon in connection with the accession of Alexander Severus) sheds light on the ways in which he engaged with the contemporary tradition on this larger-than-life historical figure. By unmasking the Severans’ attempts to appropriate Alexander as debased forms of imitatio Alexandr…
Warfare in the Sicilian Historiographical Tradition
Published in Rachel Bruzzone, ed., Polemos and his Children (HISTOS Supplement 12), p. 119-137
Ptolemaic propaganda in Alexander’s visit to Ammon
In his narrative of the famous visit of Alexander to the oracle of Ammon at Siwah in Libya (3.3-4), Arrian indicates explicitly where his two principal sources, Ptolemy and Aristobulus, disagree. The divergences are two: Ptolemy’s substitution of snakes as guides for Alexander’s army in their march through the desert (FGrH 138 F 8) for the crows of Callisthenes (FGrH 124 F14a and 14b) and Aristobulus (FGrH 139 F 14), and his claim that Alexander …
Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity
Politics and the Pamphlet of Stesimbrotus of Thasos
There has been much debate on the nature and Tendenz (if any) of the mysterious pamphlet of Stesimbrotus of Thasos, which circulated in antiquity under the title On Themistocles, Thucydides, and Pericles, although consensus has so far remained elusive. A re-examination of the 11 extant fragments as an integrated whole reveals that the work was a serious political invective, reflecting the views of the intellectual dissidents opposed to the radica…
Critias in Xenophon’s Hellenica
In this contribution, I re-examine Xenophon’s negative portrayal of Critias in the Hellenica as a brutal and violent thug. The extant fragments from his once-extensive oeuvre, however, suggest that the historical Critias advocated an elite “counterculture” aimed at reintroducing the traditionally conservative virtues of moderation and good order into contemporary politics in Athens, which he viewed as corrupt and enervating thanks to the corrosiv…
Violence and Civil Strife in Xenophon’s Hellenica
Duris of Samos
Duris of Samos was one of the most influential historians and literary figures of the Hellenistic Period. He is best known for his Macedonian history, which covered the reigns of Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great, and the early Successors. Because his work survives only in short fragments cited by later authorities, little can be determined with any certainty about his life and the character of his historical writing.
Ancient Macedonians in Greek and Roman Sources
Ch. 2. Tyrants as Impious Leaders in Xenophon's Hellenica
Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the consistent focus throughout Xenophon’s large and disparate body of work upon articulating a very specific set of virtues that define a good leader. I examine the reverse side of this trend in scholarship by identifying the characteristics that Xenophon employs to define bad leaders. I argue that Xenophon deliberately shaped his narrative in the Hellenica to portray egregiously bad leaders as tyrants, …
Wandering Greeks
184 PHOENIX difficult to verify elsewhere. Teegarden’s underlying concept thus bears the risk of the results already being predetermined from the outset. Finally, Teegarden’s thesis is not able to explain why the laws would be promulgated in the first place: there would have been no tyrant-killing legislation in the fifth century without previous anti-tyranny discourses throughout the Greek world and there would have been no “Hellenistic democrat…
A case study in Isocrates
En dépit des protestations d’Hérodote et de Thucydide, la tradition populaire à Athènes considérait que la cité avait été libérée de la tyrannie des Pisistratides par Harmodios et Aristogiton. Rien d’étonnant, donc, à ce que les orateurs attiques aient adopté la version populaire des événements. Isocrate attribue cependant la libération d’Athènes à Clisthène et non pas aux tyrannicides, qui brillent d’ailleurs par leur absence dans son œuvre. Le …
Duris of Samos
Duris of (ca. 330–ca. 260 BCE ) served as tyrant of his native island and was the author of numerous historical and literary works; he is best known for his Macedonian history, which covered the reigns of philip ii of macedon, alexander iii, the great, and his early Successors. Because his work does not survive apart from snippets quoted by later authorities, little can be determined with any certainty about his life and the character of his hist…
Stesimbrotos of Thasos
Stesimbrotos of Thasos (fl. mid‐ to late fifth century BCE ) is a shadowy and mysterious figure, the author of various literary works in a wide range of genres.
The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus by Carolyn Dewald, John Marincola
174 PHOENIX There is a Glossary (348-352) and a Concordance of name spellings (e.g., "Greek / variant forms ... Name in this volume"), which uses the Latin alphabet. A useful addition tothis Concordancewould be a list of individualsincludedbyBerve andomittedby Heckel, and vice versa. The bibliography(359-374) iswide ranging,but not complete. There are sixteenstemmata(376-389), whichwould be improved by includingsome indication of date. On occasio…
Theopompos and the Public Documentation of Fifth-Century Athens
Critias' Commemoration of Athens
On a traditionnellement interprété comme un éloge le dessein de Critias de commémorer Athènes dans l'élégie sur l'étiologie (DK 88 B 2). Cependant, une réévaluation de cette élégie suggère au contraire que son but était à la fois parodique et dogmatique, offrant à ses compatriotes qui formaient l'élite de sauver le débat aristocratique des influences corruptrices de la démocratie et de l'empire en même temps que la démocratisation de l'institutio…
Rationalization as a Moral Tool
Malgré ses déclarations d’éviter l’époque mythique. Éphore de Cymè insère dans son histoire universelle un récit rationnel de l’établissement d’Apollon à Delphes. Il y inclut un nombre de rationalisations, — celle de Thémis, Tityus et Python par exemple — dont le but est de souligner la mission morale et civilisatrice du dieu. La façon avec laquelle Éphore rationalise le mythe de la fondation de l’oracle de Delphes s’inscrit dans le contexte inte…
Herodotus
Herodotus
Critias in Xenophon’s Hellenica
In this contribution, I re-examine Xenophon’s negative portrayal of Critias in the Hellenica as a brutal and violent thug. The extant fragments from his once-extensive oeuvre, however, suggest that the historical Critias advocated an elite “counterculture” aimed at reintroducing the traditionally conservative virtues of moderation and good order into contemporary politics in Athens, which he viewed as corrupt and enervating thanks to the corrosiv…
Condemnation of the Impious in Xenophon's Hellenica
In the Hellenica , Xenophon prefaces his account of the liberation of Thebes from Spartan occupation by making the following gnomic observation: One could tell also of many other incidents, both Greek and barbarian, showing that the gods are not unmindful either of those who are impious or of those who commit unholy acts. Now, at any rate, I shall tell only of the events at hand
Ch. 2. Tyrants as Impious Leaders in Xenophon's Hellenica
Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the consistent focus throughout Xenophon’s large and disparate body of work upon articulating a very specific set of virtues that define a good leader. I examine the reverse side of this trend in scholarship by identifying the characteristics that Xenophon employs to define bad leaders. I argue that Xenophon deliberately shaped his narrative in the Hellenica to portray egregiously bad leaders as tyrants, …
Rationalization as a Moral Tool
Malgré ses déclarations d’éviter l’époque mythique. Éphore de Cymè insère dans son histoire universelle un récit rationnel de l’établissement d’Apollon à Delphes. Il y inclut un nombre de rationalisations, — celle de Thémis, Tityus et Python par exemple — dont le but est de souligner la mission morale et civilisatrice du dieu. La façon avec laquelle Éphore rationalise le mythe de la fondation de l’oracle de Delphes s’inscrit dans le contexte inte…
Presbeis Autokratores
ANDOCIDES' DE PACE MARKS an interlude of diplomacy towards the end of the first decade of the fourth century, interrupting briefly the course of the Corinthian War. Didymus cites Philochorus for the condemnation of Andocides and the other ambassadors in the archonship of Philocles, that is, the Attic year 392/1 (FGrHist 328 F 149a).1 In the De pace, Andocides urges the Athenian assembly to accept the terms proposed at a peace conference at Sparta…
Condemnation of the Impious in Xenophon's Hellenica
In the Hellenica , Xenophon prefaces his account of the liberation of Thebes from Spartan occupation by making the following gnomic observation: One could tell also of many other incidents, both Greek and barbarian, showing that the gods are not unmindful either of those who are impious or of those who commit unholy acts. Now, at any rate, I shall tell only of the events at hand
Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece
Herodotus
Rationalization as a Moral Tool
Malgré ses déclarations d’éviter l’époque mythique. Éphore de Cymè insère dans son histoire universelle un récit rationnel de l’établissement d’Apollon à Delphes. Il y inclut un nombre de rationalisations, — celle de Thémis, Tityus et Python par exemple — dont le but est de souligner la mission morale et civilisatrice du dieu. La façon avec laquelle Éphore rationalise le mythe de la fondation de l’oracle de Delphes s’inscrit dans le contexte inte…
Theopompos and the Public Documentation of Fifth-Century Athens
Critias' Commemoration of Athens
On a traditionnellement interprété comme un éloge le dessein de Critias de commémorer Athènes dans l'élégie sur l'étiologie (DK 88 B 2). Cependant, une réévaluation de cette élégie suggère au contraire que son but était à la fois parodique et dogmatique, offrant à ses compatriotes qui formaient l'élite de sauver le débat aristocratique des influences corruptrices de la démocratie et de l'empire en même temps que la démocratisation de l'institutio…
The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus by Carolyn Dewald, John Marincola
174 PHOENIX There is a Glossary (348-352) and a Concordance of name spellings (e.g., "Greek / variant forms ... Name in this volume"), which uses the Latin alphabet. A useful addition tothis Concordancewould be a list of individualsincludedbyBerve andomittedby Heckel, and vice versa. The bibliography(359-374) iswide ranging,but not complete. There are sixteenstemmata(376-389), whichwould be improved by includingsome indication of date. On occasio…
Duris of Samos
Duris of (ca. 330–ca. 260 BCE ) served as tyrant of his native island and was the author of numerous historical and literary works; he is best known for his Macedonian history, which covered the reigns of philip ii of macedon, alexander iii, the great, and his early Successors. Because his work does not survive apart from snippets quoted by later authorities, little can be determined with any certainty about his life and the character of his hist…
Stesimbrotos of Thasos
Stesimbrotos of Thasos (fl. mid‐ to late fifth century BCE ) is a shadowy and mysterious figure, the author of various literary works in a wide range of genres.
A case study in Isocrates
En dépit des protestations d’Hérodote et de Thucydide, la tradition populaire à Athènes considérait que la cité avait été libérée de la tyrannie des Pisistratides par Harmodios et Aristogiton. Rien d’étonnant, donc, à ce que les orateurs attiques aient adopté la version populaire des événements. Isocrate attribue cependant la libération d’Athènes à Clisthène et non pas aux tyrannicides, qui brillent d’ailleurs par leur absence dans son œuvre. Le …
Wandering Greeks
184 PHOENIX difficult to verify elsewhere. Teegarden’s underlying concept thus bears the risk of the results already being predetermined from the outset. Finally, Teegarden’s thesis is not able to explain why the laws would be promulgated in the first place: there would have been no tyrant-killing legislation in the fifth century without previous anti-tyranny discourses throughout the Greek world and there would have been no “Hellenistic democrat…
Ch. 2. Tyrants as Impious Leaders in Xenophon's Hellenica
Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the consistent focus throughout Xenophon’s large and disparate body of work upon articulating a very specific set of virtues that define a good leader. I examine the reverse side of this trend in scholarship by identifying the characteristics that Xenophon employs to define bad leaders. I argue that Xenophon deliberately shaped his narrative in the Hellenica to portray egregiously bad leaders as tyrants, …
Duris of Samos
Duris of Samos was one of the most influential historians and literary figures of the Hellenistic Period. He is best known for his Macedonian history, which covered the reigns of Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great, and the early Successors. Because his work survives only in short fragments cited by later authorities, little can be determined with any certainty about his life and the character of his historical writing.
Ancient Macedonians in Greek and Roman Sources
Violence and Civil Strife in Xenophon’s Hellenica
Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity
Politics and the Pamphlet of Stesimbrotus of Thasos
There has been much debate on the nature and Tendenz (if any) of the mysterious pamphlet of Stesimbrotus of Thasos, which circulated in antiquity under the title On Themistocles, Thucydides, and Pericles, although consensus has so far remained elusive. A re-examination of the 11 extant fragments as an integrated whole reveals that the work was a serious political invective, reflecting the views of the intellectual dissidents opposed to the radica…
Critias in Xenophon’s Hellenica
In this contribution, I re-examine Xenophon’s negative portrayal of Critias in the Hellenica as a brutal and violent thug. The extant fragments from his once-extensive oeuvre, however, suggest that the historical Critias advocated an elite “counterculture” aimed at reintroducing the traditionally conservative virtues of moderation and good order into contemporary politics in Athens, which he viewed as corrupt and enervating thanks to the corrosiv…
Warfare in the Sicilian Historiographical Tradition
Published in Rachel Bruzzone, ed., Polemos and his Children (HISTOS Supplement 12), p. 119-137
Ptolemaic propaganda in Alexander’s visit to Ammon
In his narrative of the famous visit of Alexander to the oracle of Ammon at Siwah in Libya (3.3-4), Arrian indicates explicitly where his two principal sources, Ptolemy and Aristobulus, disagree. The divergences are two: Ptolemy’s substitution of snakes as guides for Alexander’s army in their march through the desert (FGrH 138 F 8) for the crows of Callisthenes (FGrH 124 F14a and 14b) and Aristobulus (FGrH 139 F 14), and his claim that Alexander …
Peter J. Rhodes. Herodotus
Matthew Simonton. Classical Greek Oligarchy
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Cassius Dio and the Imitatio Alexandri
Cassius Dio’s narrative of two episodes involving imitations of Alexander the Great (Caracalla’s crossing of the Hellespont and the mysterious appearance of an Alexander-daimon in connection with the accession of Alexander Severus) sheds light on the ways in which he engaged with the contemporary tradition on this larger-than-life historical figure. By unmasking the Severans’ attempts to appropriate Alexander as debased forms of imitatio Alexandr…
Stesimbrotos of Thasos
Stesimbrotos of Thasos was a fifth‐century rhapsode and literary figure. In addition to works on mystery cults and Homeric problems, he is attested to have written a treatise on contemporary fifth‐century Athenian politicians. Although the nature and political stance of his treatise remain elusive, it was highly influential upon the later literary and historiographical tradition.
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