Andreas Ammann
Biographic Data
| ID | 9518203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Ammann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Ammann |
| SIGNATURE | AMMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | LMU Klinikum |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4409-7580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Did Josephus write 4 Maccabees? Reconstructing the authorship debate through editions of the text
In today’s scholarship, no one would question the fact that the author of 4 Maccabees is unknown. However, for many centuries the work was believed to have been written by Flavius Josephus. This article investigates when exactly in the long reception history of this text, and for what reasons, it was first suggested that the Jewish historian could not be its author. Furthermore, it explores how long it took for this view to become the consensus a…
Friendship, glory, and common death
Curtius Rufus’ History of Alexander contains three episodes, absent from all other ancient texts on the Macedonian king, that are clearly modelled on Virgil’s famous story of Nisus and Euryalus. This paper considers these passages in relation to the Virgilian model, as well as to one another, and argues that they are more than mere literary embellishment of the historical narrative: they serve as a device for the author to indirectly criticise th…
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Did Josephus write 4 Maccabees? Reconstructing the authorship debate through editions of the text
In today’s scholarship, no one would question the fact that the author of 4 Maccabees is unknown. However, for many centuries the work was believed to have been written by Flavius Josephus. This article investigates when exactly in the long reception history of this text, and for what reasons, it was first suggested that the Jewish historian could not be its author. Furthermore, it explores how long it took for this view to become the consensus a…
Friendship, glory, and common death
Curtius Rufus’ History of Alexander contains three episodes, absent from all other ancient texts on the Macedonian king, that are clearly modelled on Virgil’s famous story of Nisus and Euryalus. This paper considers these passages in relation to the Virgilian model, as well as to one another, and argues that they are more than mere literary embellishment of the historical narrative: they serve as a device for the author to indirectly criticise th…
Archaeology and Historical Studies (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Byzantine Studies and History (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Curtius rearrangement (1 work) · Friendship (1 work) · Glory (1 work)