Chrysanthos S Chrysanthou
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chrysanthos S Chrysanthou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chrysanthos S |
| FAMILY NAME | Chrysanthou |
| SIGNATURE | CHRYSANTHOU C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9843-1153 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Digressions in Herodian’s History of the Empire
This chapter offers a comprehensive examination of the narratological presence and role of digressions in Herodian's History of the Roman Empire. It contends that Herodian's digressions do not simply provide a respite from the primary narrative of a most chaotic period of Roman history. Nor do they merely strengthen Herodian's authority as a historian of wide-ranging interests and learning. Rather, they are integral parts of Herodian's compositio…
Φήμη in Herodian’s Roman History
This article offers a usage study of the word φήμη throughout Herodian’s Roman History. It sets Herodian’s practice in a broader literary picture that includes other historians, but also epic and the novel, and then suggests that the extremely high frequency of φήμη in Herodian is unique among Greek-language historians and that Herodian is indebted to Latin-language historiography for this technique. The following sections examine how Herodian pe…
Group Minds in Ancient Greek Historiography and the Ancient Greek Novel
This article explores Herodian's History of the Roman Empire alongside Chariton's novel Callirhoe with an eye to how the minds of collective entities are represented and function in the two narratives. It argues that Chariton, unlike Herodian, elaborates on the diversity of emotions that characterizes a specific collective experience and has groups use direct speech throughout. These choices add vividness to the narrative and intensify the fictio…
Group Minds in Ancient Narrative
The present article adopts a cognitive approach to examine the representation of group minds in ancient narrative and show the specific purposes to which they are put. Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire , a work that illustrates the social and collective dimension of mental functioning, is chosen as a case study. After a brief exposition of the state of research on collective minds in narratology and literature, the present study first discus…
Herodian's Septimius Severus
In this article I offer a comprehensive examination of Herodian’s narrative of the emperor Septimius Severus, with a focus on his literary programme and historical methodology. First, I corroborate the view of recent scholarship as regards Herodian’s complex characterization of Septimius Severus by offering new insights into Herodian’s technique of progressively shaping the emperor’s portrait with great richness and complexity. Second, I show tha…
Reconfiguring the Imperial Past
In the process of recording the history of the Roman Empire, from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III, Herodian makes his characters respond to the same situations in similar or different ways. This book shows that each reign in Herodian's History is creatively mapped onto ever-recurring narrative patterns. It argues that patterning is not simply decorative in Herodian's work but constitutes a crucial conceptual and metho…
Plutarch and the “Malicious” Historian
This article shows that Plutarch’s principles of historical criticism in On the Malice of Herodotus do not always obtain in the Lives, and that Plutarch’s narrative techniques in his biographies prove to be vulnerable to the criticisms that Plutarch makes of Herodotus in the essay. Yet rather than being a sign of malice and deviousness, as Plutarch argues for Herodotus in On the Malice, it is suggested that these techniques are used in the Lives …
Sex and Power in Cassius Dio’s Roman History
This article contributes to our understanding of Dio’s technique of using sexual discourse as a useful tool of characterisation and ethical and historical interpretation. It also aims to advance our understanding of the role of sexual-moral critique in ancient historiography more generally. In the first part, it argues that comments on sexual matters in Dio’s history contribute to the construction of imperial portraits and the evaluation of an em…
Orator-politician vs. Philosopher
The present article argues for both a lexical and a larger conceptual connection between the prologue to Plutarch's Demosthenes–Cicero book (Dem. 1–3) and the so-called digression on the lives of the orator-politicians and the philosophers in Plato's Theaetetus (172c–177c). It first proposes a connection between the two passages through the appearance of forms of the word ἀπομαραίνεσθαι, a verb which takes arts in general as its subject in Plutar…
Reading History Ethically
This paper offers a close reading of Plutarch’s treatment of Alexander’s murder of Cleitus in the Life of Alexander (50-52.2), analyzing the specific narrative techniques that Plutarch employs to draw his readers to reflect on several aspects of Alexander’s character and actively engage them with the complexities involved in the process of moral evaluation. Though Alexander’s murder of Cleitus constitutes a pure stain on Alexander’s moral record,…
Group Minds in Ancient Greek Historiography and the Ancient Greek Novel
This article explores Herodian's History of the Roman Empire alongside Chariton's novel Callirhoe with an eye to how the minds of collective entities are represented and function in the two narratives. It argues that Chariton, unlike Herodian, elaborates on the diversity of emotions that characterizes a specific collective experience and has groups use direct speech throughout. These choices add vividness to the narrative and intensify the fictio…
Group Minds in Ancient Narrative
The present article adopts a cognitive approach to examine the representation of group minds in ancient narrative and show the specific purposes to which they are put. Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire , a work that illustrates the social and collective dimension of mental functioning, is chosen as a case study. After a brief exposition of the state of research on collective minds in narratology and literature, the present study first discus…
Orator-politician vs. Philosopher
The present article argues for both a lexical and a larger conceptual connection between the prologue to Plutarch's Demosthenes–Cicero book (Dem. 1–3) and the so-called digression on the lives of the orator-politicians and the philosophers in Plato's Theaetetus (172c–177c). It first proposes a connection between the two passages through the appearance of forms of the word ἀπομαραίνεσθαι, a verb which takes arts in general as its subject in Plutar…
Reading History Ethically
This paper offers a close reading of Plutarch’s treatment of Alexander’s murder of Cleitus in the Life of Alexander (50-52.2), analyzing the specific narrative techniques that Plutarch employs to draw his readers to reflect on several aspects of Alexander’s character and actively engage them with the complexities involved in the process of moral evaluation. Though Alexander’s murder of Cleitus constitutes a pure stain on Alexander’s moral record,…
Plutarch and the “Malicious” Historian
This article shows that Plutarch’s principles of historical criticism in On the Malice of Herodotus do not always obtain in the Lives, and that Plutarch’s narrative techniques in his biographies prove to be vulnerable to the criticisms that Plutarch makes of Herodotus in the essay. Yet rather than being a sign of malice and deviousness, as Plutarch argues for Herodotus in On the Malice, it is suggested that these techniques are used in the Lives …
Sex and Power in Cassius Dio’s Roman History
This article contributes to our understanding of Dio’s technique of using sexual discourse as a useful tool of characterisation and ethical and historical interpretation. It also aims to advance our understanding of the role of sexual-moral critique in ancient historiography more generally. In the first part, it argues that comments on sexual matters in Dio’s history contribute to the construction of imperial portraits and the evaluation of an em…
Herodian's Septimius Severus
In this article I offer a comprehensive examination of Herodian’s narrative of the emperor Septimius Severus, with a focus on his literary programme and historical methodology. First, I corroborate the view of recent scholarship as regards Herodian’s complex characterization of Septimius Severus by offering new insights into Herodian’s technique of progressively shaping the emperor’s portrait with great richness and complexity. Second, I show tha…
Reconfiguring the Imperial Past
In the process of recording the history of the Roman Empire, from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III, Herodian makes his characters respond to the same situations in similar or different ways. This book shows that each reign in Herodian's History is creatively mapped onto ever-recurring narrative patterns. It argues that patterning is not simply decorative in Herodian's work but constitutes a crucial conceptual and metho…
Φήμη in Herodian’s Roman History
This article offers a usage study of the word φήμη throughout Herodian’s Roman History. It sets Herodian’s practice in a broader literary picture that includes other historians, but also epic and the novel, and then suggests that the extremely high frequency of φήμη in Herodian is unique among Greek-language historians and that Herodian is indebted to Latin-language historiography for this technique. The following sections examine how Herodian pe…
Group Minds in Ancient Greek Historiography and the Ancient Greek Novel
This article explores Herodian's History of the Roman Empire alongside Chariton's novel Callirhoe with an eye to how the minds of collective entities are represented and function in the two narratives. It argues that Chariton, unlike Herodian, elaborates on the diversity of emotions that characterizes a specific collective experience and has groups use direct speech throughout. These choices add vividness to the narrative and intensify the fictio…
Group Minds in Ancient Narrative
The present article adopts a cognitive approach to examine the representation of group minds in ancient narrative and show the specific purposes to which they are put. Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire , a work that illustrates the social and collective dimension of mental functioning, is chosen as a case study. After a brief exposition of the state of research on collective minds in narratology and literature, the present study first discus…
Digressions in Herodian’s History of the Empire
This chapter offers a comprehensive examination of the narratological presence and role of digressions in Herodian's History of the Roman Empire. It contends that Herodian's digressions do not simply provide a respite from the primary narrative of a most chaotic period of Roman history. Nor do they merely strengthen Herodian's authority as a historian of wide-ranging interests and learning. Rather, they are integral parts of Herodian's compositio…
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