Vasileios Liotsakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5647261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vasileios Liotsakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vasileios |
| FAMILY NAME | Liotsakis |
| SIGNATURE | LIOTSAKIS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dept. of Philology, University of the Peloponnese https://dx.doi.org/69163 Kalamata Greece |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7469-9630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Digressions in Classical Historiography
Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5 th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological …
The Multifunctionality of Source Citations and Indirect Speech in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
Scholars tend to regard the citations of the Anabasis of Alexander as an expression of Arrian’s uncertainty or of the fact that he was drawing his information from sources other than Ptolemy and Aristobulus, while no efforts have been made to explore the functions of source citations and indirect speech in the work which move beyond the criteria of uncertainty and detachment. In this paper, I argue that Arrian took advantage of the traditional mu…
Patterns of Religious Content and Narrative Arrangement in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
This study examines three patterns of religious content in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander : (a) ritual reports, (b) religious material culture, and (c) omens. Although ritual reports and omens mainly mark turning points of the expedition and certain qualities of Alexander’s character, the passages pertaining to religious material culture also transfer our focal point of interest to the author’s religious beliefs and his literary and cultural tast…
How to Satisfy Everyone
In his ArsR hetorica,Aristotle warns the aspiringspeakers of his aget hat ar hetor is always invited to convince manyd ifferent categories of listeners through the same words.The philosopher refers to the differences between three kinds of audiencesthe young,the old, and the middle-aged -with regard to their character and mentality (Rh.1388b(Rh.-1390b)).Although Aristotle focuses in this passageonthe ageofthe listeners,t herea re of course severa…
Reading History in the Roman Empire
Witnesses and Evidence in Ancient Greek Literature
The fact that aspects of witnesses and evidence put them in the centre of the institutional and cultural (e.g. religious, literary) construction of ancient societies indicates that it is important to keep offering nuanced approaches to the topic of this volume. To advance knowledge of the processes of presenting witnesses and gathering, or constructing, evidence is, in fact, to better and more fully understand the ways in which deliberative Athen…
Suspense in Ancient Greek Literature
The use of suspense in ancient literature attracts increasing attention in modern scholarship, but hitherto there has been no comprehensive work analysing the techniques of suspense through the various genres of the Classical literary canon. This volume aspires to fill such a gap, exploring the phenomenon of suspense in the earliest narrative writings of the western world, the literature of the ancient Greeks. The individual chapters focus on a w…
The Art of History
A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic …
Art of History
Narrative Defects in Thucydides and the Development of Ancient Greek Historiography
Texts of religious content in Thucydides and the implied ancient reader
In this paper I elaborate on the very issue of ‘Thucydides and religion’ from the ancient reader’s perspective. Stepping on the concept of the ‘implied reader’, introduced by the reader-response criticism, I am trying to explain that the ancients grasped the supernatural dimension of Thucydides’ History more than we nowadays do. Specifically, I focus on three test cases, the plague excursus (2, 47-54), the siege of Plataea (2, 71-78) and the narr…
Texts of religious content in Thucydides and the implied ancient reader
In this paper I elaborate on the very issue of ‘Thucydides and religion’ from the ancient reader’s perspective. Stepping on the concept of the ‘implied reader’, introduced by the reader-response criticism, I am trying to explain that the ancients grasped the supernatural dimension of Thucydides’ History more than we nowadays do. Specifically, I focus on three test cases, the plague excursus (2, 47-54), the siege of Plataea (2, 71-78) and the narr…
Texts of religious content in Thucydides and the implied ancient reader
In this paper I elaborate on the very issue of ‘Thucydides and religion’ from the ancient reader’s perspective. Stepping on the concept of the ‘implied reader’, introduced by the reader-response criticism, I am trying to explain that the ancients grasped the supernatural dimension of Thucydides’ History more than we nowadays do. Specifically, I focus on three test cases, the plague excursus (2, 47-54), the siege of Plataea (2, 71-78) and the narr…
The Art of History
A significant trend in the study of Greek and Roman historiographers is to accept that their works are to a degree both science and fiction. As scholarly interest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against various elements of the material (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studies are beginning to elaborate on the stylistic …
Art of History
Narrative Defects in Thucydides and the Development of Ancient Greek Historiography
Reading History in the Roman Empire
Witnesses and Evidence in Ancient Greek Literature
The fact that aspects of witnesses and evidence put them in the centre of the institutional and cultural (e.g. religious, literary) construction of ancient societies indicates that it is important to keep offering nuanced approaches to the topic of this volume. To advance knowledge of the processes of presenting witnesses and gathering, or constructing, evidence is, in fact, to better and more fully understand the ways in which deliberative Athen…
Suspense in Ancient Greek Literature
The use of suspense in ancient literature attracts increasing attention in modern scholarship, but hitherto there has been no comprehensive work analysing the techniques of suspense through the various genres of the Classical literary canon. This volume aspires to fill such a gap, exploring the phenomenon of suspense in the earliest narrative writings of the western world, the literature of the ancient Greeks. The individual chapters focus on a w…
How to Satisfy Everyone
In his ArsR hetorica,Aristotle warns the aspiringspeakers of his aget hat ar hetor is always invited to convince manyd ifferent categories of listeners through the same words.The philosopher refers to the differences between three kinds of audiencesthe young,the old, and the middle-aged -with regard to their character and mentality (Rh.1388b(Rh.-1390b)).Although Aristotle focuses in this passageonthe ageofthe listeners,t herea re of course severa…
The Multifunctionality of Source Citations and Indirect Speech in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
Scholars tend to regard the citations of the Anabasis of Alexander as an expression of Arrian’s uncertainty or of the fact that he was drawing his information from sources other than Ptolemy and Aristobulus, while no efforts have been made to explore the functions of source citations and indirect speech in the work which move beyond the criteria of uncertainty and detachment. In this paper, I argue that Arrian took advantage of the traditional mu…
Patterns of Religious Content and Narrative Arrangement in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
This study examines three patterns of religious content in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander : (a) ritual reports, (b) religious material culture, and (c) omens. Although ritual reports and omens mainly mark turning points of the expedition and certain qualities of Alexander’s character, the passages pertaining to religious material culture also transfer our focal point of interest to the author’s religious beliefs and his literary and cultural tast…
Digressions in Classical Historiography
Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5 th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological …
Classical Antiquity Studies (10 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Literature (6 works) · History (5 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Classics (3 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)