Colin Bailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 5669207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Bailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailey |
| SIGNATURE | BAILEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6216-5239 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Study of Plutarch's Sayings of Kings and Emperors (on L. van der Wiel, An Opaque Mirror for Trajan
The Repulsae of Aemilius Paulus in Plutarch’s Aemilius
In his Life of Aemilius Paulus, Plutarch provides very little information about Aemilius’ life and career before the Third Macedonian War. Silence on the childhood and early life of a subject is not unusual, but it is remarkable that Plutarch fails to mention Aemilius’ difficulties in winning his first consulship in 182 BCE, which we know from Livy (39.32.6). Plutarch does, however, report a repulsa in Aemilius’ bid for a second consulship, which…
Lives within Lives
This article examines Plutarch's treatment of Perseus of Macedonia in the Life of Aemilius and argues that Perseus is a secondary biographical subject. By directing our attention to aspects of the king's birth and death, as well as his central moral traits, outstanding ancestors, and responses to changes in fortune, Plutarch integrates Perseus fully into the moral themes of the Aemilius-Timoleon. Aemilius, in his meetings with the king, reflects …
The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio (c. 160–c. 230) is a familiar name to Roman historians, but still an enigmatic one. His text has shaped our understanding of his own period and earlier eras, but basic questions remain about his Greek and Roman cultural identities and his literary and intellectual influences. Contributors to this volume read Dio against different backgrounds including the politics of the Severan court, the cultural milieu of the Second Sophistic and R…
Fritz Gerlich--ein Publizist gegen Hitler
‘The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.’ Thus wrote Søren Kierkegaard in 1848, the year of the European revolutions. Looking back, a hundred years later, Germans could not consider their recent history and tell a comforting tale of how the courageous actions of martyrs had caused the overthrow of a tyrant’s rule. While the resistance offered by members of the Confessing Church, the White Rose group and a variet…
Hindenburg
Journal Article Hindenburg: Power, Myth and the Rise of the Nazis, by Anna von der Goltz Get access Hindenburg: Power, Myth and the Rise of the Nazis, by Anna von der Goltz (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2009; pp. 325. £30). Christian Bailey Christian Bailey The Open University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVII, Issue 524, February 2012, …
Exilpresse digital
When we think of the German emigration during the 1930s and ’40s, a number of figures, places and events perhaps come to mind. Thomas Mann, the most prominent of the illustrious group of Californian exiles, addressing world affairs from his home in Pacific Palisades, might seem familiar; or Hannah Arendt and the New School intellectuals bringing critical philosophy to New York may ring bells. Maybe equally memorable is the strange prospect of Her…
How Dead is Hitler?' Der britische Starreporter Sefton Delmer und die Deutschen
Karen Bayer's biography of Sefton Delmer throws the spotlight on an unusual character: a British journalist who grew up in Imperial Berlin and later befriended prominent Nazis, yet who waged a war-time propaganda campaign against Germany and became identified as a leading Deutschenhasser in the early post-war period. Delmer's unusualness is his great attraction for the biographer and the historian. Few other individuals’ lives shuttle back and fo…
The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio (c. 160–c. 230) is a familiar name to Roman historians, but still an enigmatic one. His text has shaped our understanding of his own period and earlier eras, but basic questions remain about his Greek and Roman cultural identities and his literary and intellectual influences. Contributors to this volume read Dio against different backgrounds including the politics of the Severan court, the cultural milieu of the Second Sophistic and R…
How Dead is Hitler?' Der britische Starreporter Sefton Delmer und die Deutschen
Karen Bayer's biography of Sefton Delmer throws the spotlight on an unusual character: a British journalist who grew up in Imperial Berlin and later befriended prominent Nazis, yet who waged a war-time propaganda campaign against Germany and became identified as a leading Deutschenhasser in the early post-war period. Delmer's unusualness is his great attraction for the biographer and the historian. Few other individuals’ lives shuttle back and fo…
Exilpresse digital
When we think of the German emigration during the 1930s and ’40s, a number of figures, places and events perhaps come to mind. Thomas Mann, the most prominent of the illustrious group of Californian exiles, addressing world affairs from his home in Pacific Palisades, might seem familiar; or Hannah Arendt and the New School intellectuals bringing critical philosophy to New York may ring bells. Maybe equally memorable is the strange prospect of Her…
Hindenburg
Journal Article Hindenburg: Power, Myth and the Rise of the Nazis, by Anna von der Goltz Get access Hindenburg: Power, Myth and the Rise of the Nazis, by Anna von der Goltz (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2009; pp. 325. £30). Christian Bailey Christian Bailey The Open University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVII, Issue 524, February 2012, …
Fritz Gerlich--ein Publizist gegen Hitler
‘The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.’ Thus wrote Søren Kierkegaard in 1848, the year of the European revolutions. Looking back, a hundred years later, Germans could not consider their recent history and tell a comforting tale of how the courageous actions of martyrs had caused the overthrow of a tyrant’s rule. While the resistance offered by members of the Confessing Church, the White Rose group and a variet…
Lives within Lives
This article examines Plutarch's treatment of Perseus of Macedonia in the Life of Aemilius and argues that Perseus is a secondary biographical subject. By directing our attention to aspects of the king's birth and death, as well as his central moral traits, outstanding ancestors, and responses to changes in fortune, Plutarch integrates Perseus fully into the moral themes of the Aemilius-Timoleon. Aemilius, in his meetings with the king, reflects …
The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio
Cassius Dio (c. 160–c. 230) is a familiar name to Roman historians, but still an enigmatic one. His text has shaped our understanding of his own period and earlier eras, but basic questions remain about his Greek and Roman cultural identities and his literary and intellectual influences. Contributors to this volume read Dio against different backgrounds including the politics of the Severan court, the cultural milieu of the Second Sophistic and R…
The Repulsae of Aemilius Paulus in Plutarch’s Aemilius
In his Life of Aemilius Paulus, Plutarch provides very little information about Aemilius’ life and career before the Third Macedonian War. Silence on the childhood and early life of a subject is not unusual, but it is remarkable that Plutarch fails to mention Aemilius’ difficulties in winning his first consulship in 182 BCE, which we know from Livy (39.32.6). Plutarch does, however, report a repulsa in Aemilius’ bid for a second consulship, which…
A Study of Plutarch's Sayings of Kings and Emperors (on L. van der Wiel, An Opaque Mirror for Trajan
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