Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire

Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire
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Total Pages : 405
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ISBN-10 : 9789004516922
ISBN-13 : 9004516921
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Book Synopsis Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire by : Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou

Download or read book Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire written by Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Herodian uses an orderly and coherent historiographical form to reconfigure and explicate a most chaotic period of Roman history. Through patterning he offers a distinctive interpretative framework in which successive reigns and individual emperors need to be read in a dovetailed way.


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