Brian Bosworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 5632685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Bosworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Bosworth |
| SIGNATURE | BOSWORTH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Truth And Falsehood In Early Hellenistic Propaganda
The speaker is, of course, Alexander the Great, harshly reproving his men for their distrust of his motives when he discharged their accumulated debts. The Athenian statesman was the subtlest judge of the political situation both present and future, and could improvise with amazing skill at short notice. Alexander was in a virtual sea of things Iranian, and it would be hardly surprising if he delved into the records of the past and absorbed some …
Ptolemy and the Will of Alexander
One of the more enigmatic documents from antiquity is the so-called Liber de Morte, the colourful account of Alexander the Great's death and testament which concludes the extant versions of the Alexander Romance. This detailed and vibrant story develops the ancient rumours that Alexander was poisoned by a conspiracy among his senior marshals, led and orchestrated by Antipater's son, Cassander. Over a dozen supposed conspirators are mentioned by n…
Augustus, the Res Gestae and Hellenistic Theories of Apotheosis
The literary genre of the Res Gestae has always been a source of perplexity. Over a century ago Mommsen compared efforts to categorize it with attempts to pin a literary label upon Dante's Divina Commedia or Goethe's Faust. That did not prevent his arguing that the work was a ‘Rechenschaftsbericht’, a formal report of Augustus' achievements as princeps. Nowadays it can perhaps be accepted that the document has a multiplicity of models and many pu…
Book IV
See also /tin. 81 (derivative); Curt. 7. 6. 11 f. has a similar story but with additions and divergences which imply a different source. The consensus of modem authority is that Arrian here followed Aristobulus (Schwartz, RE ii 91s; Strasburger 39; Komemann 137), but there is no cogent evidence. The story of the Bactrian convention does seem derived from Aristobulus (cf. 4. I. 5 n.) but the following two chapters patently reproduce Ptolemy (cf. 2…
Book V
Book V begins with a deliberate and contrived interruption of the campaign narrative. Arrian does not return to the events in hand until 3. 5–6, when he briefly records Alexander’ s arrival at the Indus. That in turn gives rise to a lengthier interruption, a digression on the rivers of India, set in the geographical framework of Eratosthenes, with an appendix on contemporary Roman methods of bridge building. The narrative proper resumes only at 8…
Athens' First Intervention in Sicily
The first Athenian intervention in Sicily is one of the most opaque episodes in Thucydides. The historian for once dispenses with a full record and confines himself explicitly to the major events of the campaign. What then emerges is a disconnected narrative of geographically separate actions, most of them trivial. There is no attempt to give a synoptic picture or explain the problems of strategy, and the lack of coordination has (not surprisingl…
Augustus, the Res Gestae and Hellenistic Theories of Apotheosis
The literary genre of the Res Gestae has always been a source of perplexity. Over a century ago Mommsen compared efforts to categorize it with attempts to pin a literary label upon Dante's Divina Commedia or Goethe's Faust. That did not prevent his arguing that the work was a ‘Rechenschaftsbericht’, a formal report of Augustus' achievements as princeps. Nowadays it can perhaps be accepted that the document has a multiplicity of models and many pu…
Athens' First Intervention in Sicily
The first Athenian intervention in Sicily is one of the most opaque episodes in Thucydides. The historian for once dispenses with a full record and confines himself explicitly to the major events of the campaign. What then emerges is a disconnected narrative of geographically separate actions, most of them trivial. There is no attempt to give a synoptic picture or explain the problems of strategy, and the lack of coordination has (not surprisingl…
Athens' First Intervention in Sicily
The first Athenian intervention in Sicily is one of the most opaque episodes in Thucydides. The historian for once dispenses with a full record and confines himself explicitly to the major events of the campaign. What then emerges is a disconnected narrative of geographically separate actions, most of them trivial. There is no attempt to give a synoptic picture or explain the problems of strategy, and the lack of coordination has (not surprisingl…
Book IV
See also /tin. 81 (derivative); Curt. 7. 6. 11 f. has a similar story but with additions and divergences which imply a different source. The consensus of modem authority is that Arrian here followed Aristobulus (Schwartz, RE ii 91s; Strasburger 39; Komemann 137), but there is no cogent evidence. The story of the Bactrian convention does seem derived from Aristobulus (cf. 4. I. 5 n.) but the following two chapters patently reproduce Ptolemy (cf. 2…
Book V
Book V begins with a deliberate and contrived interruption of the campaign narrative. Arrian does not return to the events in hand until 3. 5–6, when he briefly records Alexander’ s arrival at the Indus. That in turn gives rise to a lengthier interruption, a digression on the rivers of India, set in the geographical framework of Eratosthenes, with an appendix on contemporary Roman methods of bridge building. The narrative proper resumes only at 8…
Augustus, the Res Gestae and Hellenistic Theories of Apotheosis
The literary genre of the Res Gestae has always been a source of perplexity. Over a century ago Mommsen compared efforts to categorize it with attempts to pin a literary label upon Dante's Divina Commedia or Goethe's Faust. That did not prevent his arguing that the work was a ‘Rechenschaftsbericht’, a formal report of Augustus' achievements as princeps. Nowadays it can perhaps be accepted that the document has a multiplicity of models and many pu…
Ptolemy and the Will of Alexander
One of the more enigmatic documents from antiquity is the so-called Liber de Morte, the colourful account of Alexander the Great's death and testament which concludes the extant versions of the Alexander Romance. This detailed and vibrant story develops the ancient rumours that Alexander was poisoned by a conspiracy among his senior marshals, led and orchestrated by Antipater's son, Cassander. Over a dozen supposed conspirators are mentioned by n…
Truth And Falsehood In Early Hellenistic Propaganda
The speaker is, of course, Alexander the Great, harshly reproving his men for their distrust of his motives when he discharged their accumulated debts. The Athenian statesman was the subtlest judge of the political situation both present and future, and could improvise with amazing skill at short notice. Alexander was in a virtual sea of things Iranian, and it would be hardly surprising if he delved into the records of the past and absorbed some …
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