Diederik Burgersdijk

Biographic Data

ID9161863
NAMEDiederik Burgersdijk
GIVEN NAMESDiederik
FAMILY NAMEBurgersdijk
SIGNATUREBURGERSDIJK D
AFFILIATIONSRadboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX0

  • Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization

    Open AccessDavid Konstan, Grammatiki A Karla et al.BOOKWriting Biography in Greece and…2016

    Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as many scholars of literature and history more generally. In particular biographies offer important insights into the dynamics underlying ancient performance of the self and social behaviour, issues currently of crucial importance in classical studies. They also raise complex issues of narrativity and fictionalization. This volume examines a range of…

  • Creating the Enemy: Ammianus Marcellinus' Double Digression on Huns and Alans (Res Gestae 31.2)

    Open AccessD W P Burgersdijk, Diederik BurgersdijkARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…2016References: 20

    Ammianus Marcellinus' excursus on the Huns and Alans in the thirty-first and last book of his Res Gestae, in which he creates an image of an enemy that threatens the Roman empire, mainly serves to enhance the suspense in the final part of his narrative. It contains a message to the reigning emperor to defend the borders between barbarism and civilization. The narratological motifs and ideological purposes in the portraiture of foreign peoples, wh…

  • Pliny's Panegyricus and the Historia Augusta

    Open AccessD W P Burgersdijk, Diederik BurgersdijkARTICLEArethusa2013

    In this article, the panegyrical tendencies in the Historia Augusta (especially to be found in the lives of Claudius, Tacitus, Aurelian, and Probus) are compared with the possible model of Pliny's Panegyricus to the emperor Trajan, who is considered the optimus princeps all through Late Antiquity. It is observed that there are many similar strategies used to praise the emperors concerned. At the same time, the panegyrical descriptions in the live…

  • Raphael’s Poetics: Art and Poetry in High Renaissance Rome

    Open AccessD W P Burgersdijk, Diederik BurgersdijkARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2013

    David Rijser. Raphael’s Poetics: Art and Poetry in High Renaissance Rome. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012. xxvii + 475 pp. + 18 color pls. €39.50. ISBN: 978–90–8964–342–1. - Volume 66 Issue 1

  • Emperors and historiography: Collected essays on the literature of the Roman Empire by Daniël den Hengst

    Daniël den Hengst, D W P Burgersdijk et al.BOOKEmperors and historiography2010

    "In this collection of essays Roman historical and biographical texts are studied from a literary point of view. The main interest of the author, Daniel den Hengst, professor emeritus of Latin at the University of Amsterdam, concerns the development of Roman historiography, the ways in which Roman historians present their work and the intertextual relations between these works and other literary genres. Special attention is given to the Historia …

  • Emperors and Historiography: Collected Essays on the Literature of the Roman Empire by Daniël den Hengst

    Daniël den Hengst, Hanna Schreuders et al.BOOKEmperors and historiography2009

    This volume contains scholarly articles by professor Daniel den Hengst, in which structural and intertextual aspects of Roman historiographical texts are studied. Special attention is given to the Historia Augusta and Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae, but also relevant texts by Cicero, Livy, Quintilian and Suetonius are discussed.

  • Emperors and Historiography: Collected Essays on the Literature of the Roman Empire by Daniël Den Hengst

    Diederik Burgersdijk, Joop Van WaardenBOOKEmperors and Historiography2009