Thukydides second-hand bei Flavius Josephus: zur Rezeption thukydideischer Motive im Bellum Judaicum

Preview   Vassiliki Pothou has provided us with a comprehensive and immensely helpful overview of Thucydidean motifs in Josephus’s Judean War. That Josephus had read his Thucydides is, of course, not news, nor that he strove to emulate him. What Pothou’s study does offer is a valuable analysis of the means of such emulation, of … Continue reading Thukydides second-hand bei Flavius Josephus: zur Rezeption thukydideischer Motive im Bellum Judaicum