Erneuerung der Vergangenheit. Die Historiker im Imperium Romanum von Florus bis Cassius Dio

Hose, Martin

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“…For specific comparison of Septimius Severus to the Spanish emperors with reference to religious politics, see Lichtenberger 2011: 128-37. For changes in elite identity over the course of the second century as reflected specifically in historiography, see Hose 1994. 79. One account of dreams and portents was written by the future historian Cassius Dio Valenzani 1991Valenzani -1992 has proposed identifying it larger dynastic significance of Severus' connections to Leptis Magna and the di patrii.…”

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Roman Politics and the Fictional Narrator in Philostratus' Apollonius

Kemezis

2014

Classical Antiquity

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Philostratus' eight-book work on Apollonius of Tyana begins with an elaborate frame narrative in which the narrator describes how the empress Julia Domna commissioned him to edit a recently discovered authoritative account of that sage's career, written by one his disciples. This narrative has clear marks of conscious fictionality, and identifies the Apollonius with such pseudepigraphic works as Dictys Cretensis and The Wonders beyond Thule. This article will explore how this claim functions within Philostratus' larger narrative self-presentation. Philostratus in effect presents the reader with two models of how one obtains authoritative knowledge about cultural phenomena. The first is seen in the frame narrative, and involves single key texts authorized by politically powerful figures. The second is seen in the rest of the narrative, and involves wide-ranging research and critical argument by cultural professionals such as the narrator himself. Philostratus, although he would appear more to endorse the second model, ironically undercuts them both. The tension thus created is crucial to Philostratus' portrait of his protagonist's ambiguously human or divine status. It also has a key political component, however, inasmuch as various members of the Severan dynasty, like Philostratus' Julia, were claiming for themselves the power both to re-write political history and to redefine their status within Greco-Roman cultural discourse. The frame narrative and narratorial persona of the Apollonius are a uniquely sophistic reflection on the relationship of political power to Hellenic paideia.

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Section: The Apollonius In Its Severan Contextmentioning

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Roman Politics and the Fictional Narrator in Philostratus' Apollonius

Kemezis

2014

Classical Antiquity

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“…Hose seems to assume that the idea of a 'body of empire' implies equality and is thus inconsistent with 10 See further Hose (1994) 110 n. 2. 11 Hose (1994) twice notes the representation of the relations between Rome and the provinces as seruitus/dominatio (111 and 130) but cites only 2.14.8 and 2.21 [12].2, following Steinmetz (1982) 135-6. 12 See especially Hose (1994) 130, Jal (1965) and Steinmetz (1982) 138.…”

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“…11 Hose (1994) twice notes the representation of the relations between Rome and the provinces as seruitus/dominatio (111 and 130) but cites only 2.14.8 and 2.21 [12].2, following Steinmetz (1982) 135-6. 12 See especially Hose (1994) 130, Jal (1965) and Steinmetz (1982) 138. 13 Hose (1994).…”

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“…12 See especially Hose (1994) 130, Jal (1965) and Steinmetz (1982) 138. 13 Hose (1994). 'Imperialistische Romidee 126,127,130.…”

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“…As we will see, however, similar language in other historians of the period suggests that we might need to move beyond the internal 14 On the body as a metaphor for empire, which is certainly not an innovation of the second century, see further Lavan (2013) 3. 15 Despite his talk of tension within the narrative, Hose (1994) 137 ends up asserting that the (formation of a) corpus imperii is the goal of Roman expansion in Florus. 16 See Lavan (2013) chs 2 and 3.…”

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Florus and Dio on the Enslavement of the Provinces

Lavan

2013

Camb. class. j.

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This paper draws attention to the unprecedented prominence of metaphors of enslavement to Rome in the historical narratives of Florus and Cassius Dio. Following an analysis of the thematic importance of the trope in their respective works, I point to further parallels in Herodian and Justin which suggest that the trope proved particularly productive in both Latin and Greek historiography in the late second and early third centuries CE. The end of the paper considers broader cultural developments that might underlie this phenomenon, notably the proliferation of dominus as an epithet for the emperor and the ongoing enfranchisement of provincials.

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Erneuerung der Vergangenheit. Die Historiker im Imperium Romanum von Florus bis Cassius Dio

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Roman Politics and the Fictional Narrator in Philostratus' Apollonius

Roman Politics and the Fictional Narrator in Philostratus' Apollonius

Florus and Dio on the Enslavement of the Provinces

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