scholarly journals APPIAN’S ILLYRIKE: THE FINAL STAGE OF THE ROMAN CONSTRUCTION OF ILLYRICUM

2016 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
DANIJEL DŽINO
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional Histories

Appian’s Illyrian book (Illyrike) was originally intended to be just an appendix to his Macedonian book and today remains the only extant ancient work dealing with the early history of Illyricum which is preserved in its entirety. In this short work Appian puts together different local and regional histories in order to create a unified historical narrative and determines the historical and mythological coordinates of Illyricum inside the ancient world. This paper will discuss Illyrike in the context of the Roman construction of Illyricum as a provincial space, similar to some other regions in continental Europe such as, for example, Gaul or Britain. They were all firstly created through the needs of Roman political geography and later written into literary knowledge through the works of ancient history and ethnography. This paper will argue that Appian’s Illyrike represented the final stage of the Roman construction of Illyricum from an imaginary to a provincial space, which was the point of its full coming of age as an integral part of the ancient world and the Roman Empire.

Fates of Romes

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Alain Bresson
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

Kyle Harper's book The Fate of Rome marks the thunderous entry of Nature into the world of ancient history of the twenty-first century. This is not the first book devoted to questions of climate and diseases in the ancient world, but its publication nonetheless represents a turning point. From now on, whether they work on political, social, economic, or even religious history, ancient historians will no longer be able to ignore these factors in their own writings. That is not to say that all the theses of the book, especially its natural determinism, should be accepted uncritically.

The Cambridge Ancient History. Volume I, Part 2. Early History of the Middle East

1973 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 307
Author(s):  
J. D. Muhly ◽  
I. E. S. Edwards ◽  
C. J. Gadd ◽  
N. G. L. Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Early History ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Diogenes of Oenoanda on Cyrenaic Hedonism

2002 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 159-174
Author(s):  
David Sedley
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Exciting Time

One of the reasons why the past three decades have been an exciting time for historians of Epicureanism has been the revival of work on the Herculaneum papyri – very much a team effort. But another equally good reason has been provided by a remarkable solo act, Martin Ferguson Smith's pioneering work on the second-century AD Epicurean inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda – the largest of all Greek inscriptions to survive from the ancient world, a key text in the history of Epicurean philosophy, and an extraordinary snapshot of the (literally) monumental scale on which philosophical evangelism could be practised in the Roman empire.Smith has, almost single-handed, discovered and edited well over 100 new fragments of the inscription. This enabled him in 1993 to publish his comprehensive edition of the augmented inscription. But that was not the end of his labours. Returning to the site of Oenoanda, he has unearthed a substantial body of new ‘new fragments’, and has hopes of uncovering more in future seasons. A recent batch was published in a 1998 article. In this paper I want to consider just one of them, New Fragment 128, which fills a hole in the existing fr. 33 of Smith's edition. Thanks to this discovery, Smith has been able to supply the line-ends of the missing col. IV, and likewise to join the previously lost line-beginnings of col. V to the already surviving line-ends of that column. In addition, he has been able to make very convincing improvements to his previous readings of column III.

North Africa to 600

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Fromherz
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
History Of

The history of North Africa in Antiquity is one of the most exciting, if still comparatively unexplored, fields of ancient history and archaeology. From the continuing, highly charged controversy over the origin of the Berbers, the original inhabitants of North Africa, to the prominence of Carthage—Rome’s one significant rival for the control of the ancient Mediterranean—to the astoundingly preserved and understudied ancient ruins that meet or surpass much of what can be seen on other Mediterranean shores, North Africa in Antiquity remains a subject of great importance to scholars of the ancient world. This bibliography will include sources up to the Arab conquests of the 7th century ce.

Decline and Fall

1936 ◽  
Vol 5 (14) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
R. W. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
History Of

‘Decline and Fall’ has been a favourite heading with historians ever since the modern world undertook to chronicle the history of the ancient. It is more than a heading; it is an attitude. Gibbon first popularized it, and the phrase enjoyed a steady prosperity until the archaeologists towards the end of the last century began to redress the balance by calling in more concrete evidence than the moralizings of philosophers. Here, as in other fields, ancient history owes a great debt to Mommsen. But the old attitude has been long in dying and is not yet dead. Gibbon in envisaging the whole history of the Roman Empire from the settlement of Augustus to the coming of the Ottomans was no doubt justified in using the title he did. But his manner left no doubt that even in the days of her first princeps Rome was declining and falling hard. And his attitude is followed consciously and unconsciously by many later historians who limited their surveys to the first two or three centuries of the Empire. In schools, though it may be the fault of curricular limitations and the setters of syllabuses, it is still hard for the pupil to avoid the impression that the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome ended abruptly at 323 and 31 b.c. respectively.

Internationalizing a Course on the Cultural and Intellectual History of the Ancient World

2018 ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
Richard S. Rawls
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Pedagogical Issues ◽  
Educational Effectiveness ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Institutional Goals ◽  
Outcome Goals ◽  
History Of ◽  
Learn Outcome

This chapter investigates the process of internationalizing a course on ancient history. It suggests ways that a course can be created, examines important issues, and provides examples of assignments to help meet course, discipline, and institutional outcomes. Informed by the work of Fink, it commences by arguing for the significance of course outcome goals, disciplinary outcome goals, and additional institutional goals related to internationalizing the curriculum. Without these various outcome goals as building blocks for the course, it will be both difficult to assess the educational effectiveness of the class and challenging to organize the content. The chapter next discusses pedagogical issues before moving into internationalizing the course. It then investigates the work of two ancient authors, Herodotus and Tacitus, who commented upon foreign cultures. Their histories support exercises designed to help learn outcome goals. Contrary to what some may think, internationalizing a course on ancient history is easier than one might initially anticipate.

Capturing Nursing History With Creative Writing: Two Exemplars

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-146
Author(s):  
Jacqueline K. Owens
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Nursing History ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
History Of

Florence Nightingale formally documented much of the early history of the nursing profession, a goal that remains important today to guide our practice. Many nurse scholars have published detailed accounts of historical research. Story-based narratives can be especially effective to describe the contributions of individual nurses in a way that resonates with nurses and lay readers. Two nurses, Terri Arthur and Jeanne Bryner, have successfully disseminated stories of nurses through creative writing. This article describes their journeys to capture nursing history using historical narrative, poetry, and reflective prose.

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