Price loading...

Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context

BCE-500 AD

Price data last checked 108 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

Most of our information about Herod the Great derives from the accounts found in Josephus' Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities. Together they constitute a unique resource on one of the most famous personalities of ancient history. But from where did Josephus get his information? It is commonly agreed that his primary source was Nicolaus of Damascus, Herod's court historian, though the extent to which Josephus adapted his material remains disputed. Herod in History takes a modern, source-critical approach to Josephus' extensive account of Herod's reign to suggest that Josephus did indeed rely heavily on Nicolaus's work, but that previous scholarship was mistaken in seeing Nicolaus as a mere propagandist. Nicolaus may have begun his Universal History while Herod was alive, but he finished it after his death and so had no reason to write propaganda. This makes his work all the more interesting, for what we have instead is something rather different: a Syrian intellectual claiming a place in Augustan Rome, by telling a story about what the Augustan World looks like on the Eastern periphery. Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt delineate Nicolaus' approach to various critical topics in Herod's reign in order to reveal his perception of client kingship, the impact of empire, and the difficulties involved in ruling Judaea. This study uncovers an Eastern intellectual's view on how to succeed and how to fail in the new Augustan world order.

Product Specifications

Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0192845217
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > BCE-500 AD
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 September 2021
Listed Since: 01 April 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Nicolaus of Damascus: The Life of Augustus and The Autobiography: Edited with Introduction, Translations and Historical Commentary

Nicolas de Damas, Histoires, Recueil de Coutumes, Vie d'Auguste, Autobiographie: 12 (Fragments)

The Historical Jesus: Necessity and Limits of an Inquiry v. 3

Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception

Josephus, the Emperors, and the City of Rome: From Hostage to Historian: 86 (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 86)

The Herodotus Encyclopedia, 3 Volume Set

Routledge Sallust's Histories and Triumviral Historiography

Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans (Routledge Ancient Biographies)

The Concept of History: How Ideas are Constituted, Transmitted and Interpreted

Routledge Agrippa II: The Last of the Herods Biography

König Herodes: Der Mann Und Sein Werk: 4 (Studia Judaica)

Agrippa II: The Last of the Herods (Routledge Ancient Biographies)

Procopius of Caesarea: Literary and Historical Interpretations

The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus

The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith: The Incarnational Narrative as History

Herodotus: Histories, Books 1-4 ( Herodoti Historiae: Libri I-IV)

Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the Age of Justinian: A Study of Procopius (Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages)

The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus

Routledge - Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature

Histoire Auguste et autres historiens païens

A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories

The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor (Edinburgh Studies in Later Latin Literature)

Migration and Migrant Identities in the Near East from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Across Cultural Borders: Historiography in Global Perspective