Julius Africanus und die christliche Weltchronistik. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, 157
Martin Wallraff / Walter de Gruyter, 2006
...essay, “Chronographie als Philosophie. Die Urwahrheit der mosaischen Überlieferung nach dem Begründungsmodell des Mittelplatonismus bei Julius Africanus (Edition and Kommentierung von Africanus Chron. fr. 1)”, places Africanus in his Middle...
BMCR 2010.09.41Die Kestoi des Julius Africanus und ihre Überlieferung. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur Bd. 165
Martin Wallraff, Laura Mecella / Walter de Gruyter, 2009
...Africanus’ (17-37) considers the military content of the Kestoi as a technical Lehrschrift. While the language of the Kestoi conforms to rhetorical conventions of Greek scientific prose, Africanus believes that...
BMCR 2008.01.20Scipio Africanus
Alexander Acimovic / iUniverse, Inc, 2007
...London, 1926); H. H. Scullard, Scipio Africanus in the Second Punic War (Cambridge, 1930); R. M. Haywood, Studies on Scipio Africanus (Baltimore, 1933); and H. H. Scullard, Scipio Africanus: Soldier...
BMCR 2008.04.43Chronographiae: the extant fragments
Martin Wallraff, Umberto Roberto, Karl Pinggéra, William Adler / W. de Gruyter, 2007
...Julius Africanus well deserves the effort that the impressive international team assembled by Martin Wallraff has obviously invested in this project. Of Africanus’ not insignificant output, consisting of the Cesti...
BMCR 2013.04.61Le ‘Chronographiae’ di Sesto Giulio Africano: storiografia, politica e cristianesimo nell’età dei Severi. Collana dell’Ambito di Storia dell’Università Europea di Roma
Umberto Roberto / Rubbettino Editore, 2011
...une certaine continuité avec la tradition historiographique judéo-hellénistique et les réflexions chrétiennes antérieures sur l’histoire et la chronologie ; l’originalité d’Africanus est toutefois soulignée. Le paradigme historiographique qu’Africanus inaugure est...
BMCR 2006.08.31From Republic to Empire. Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus
Raymond Marks / Peter Lang, 2005
...occasional reference to what was “noted earlier” or promise of “more later,” without page references (e.g., pp. 75, 187, 225, 279). 8. Errors in Latin and references: on page 105,...
BMCR 2022.09.46Polybius: experience and the lessons of history
Daniel Walker Moore / Brill, 2020
...(represented by Africanus) and experience (represented by Hannibal), Moore concludes that a regard for history proves to be generally more useful for statesmen. According to Moore, in Polybius’ opinion Africanus...
BMCR 2017.11.24Le relazioni diplomatiche di Roma. Volume VI. Dalla spedizione degli Scipioni in Asia alla pace di Apamea (190 – 188 a.C.). Prassi diplomatiche dello imperialismo romano, 2
Filippo Canali de Rossi / Scienze e lettere, 2017
...L. Scipio and his brother P. Scipio Africanus to Heraclea-by-Latmos contains an unambiguous promise of patronage (item 226). So, too, according to Canali De Rossi, does Scipio Africanus’ pledge to...
BMCR 2021.09.24Christian intellectuals and the Roman Empire
Jared Secord / The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020
...four prominent thinkers—Justin Martyr, Tatian, Julius Africanus, and Origen—and re-directs his readers’ attention to the ways in which each fits within the broader world of “intellectuals” in the Roman Empire....
BMCR 2009.04.67Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History
Paul Christesen / Cambridge University Press, 2007
...Africanus, as long supposed, but was Eusebius’ own work. He did draw on Africanus but ultimately relied on the Olympic victor list of the otherwise unknown Cassius Longinus. Eusebius’ victor...
BMCR 1995.05.091995.05.09, Walsh (ed.), Livy 38
Livy., P. G. (Patrick Gerard) Walsh / Aris & Phillips, 1993
...to slip-ups of every sort. Even when W. acknowledges that the historian has dealt with a difficult, controverted subject (the trial, death and tomb of Scipio Africanus) with energy, he...
BMCR 2007.06.41Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea
Anthony Grafton, Megan Williams / Harvard University Press, 2006
...the Hexapla. Precursors are also named in the introduction, some of whom appear later and others who do not. Julius Africanus, himself the author of a world chronicle, is the...
BMCR 2011.10.47Geoponika: Farm Work. A Modern Translation of the Roman and Byzantine Farming Handbook
Andrew Dalby / Prospect Books, 2010
...et constitution des Géoponiques à la lumière des versions orientales d’Anatolius de Béryte et de Cassianus Bassus”, dans Die Kestoi des Julius Africanus und ihre Überlieferung, éd. M. Wallraff et...
BMCR 2009.05.57The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era. Oxford Early Christian Studies
Alden A. Mosshammer / Oxford University Press, 2008
...nineteen-year cycle with the new moon on 22 March and an equinoctial date of 21 March (25 Phamenoth in the Egyptian calendar). According to Anatolius’ methodology, Easter could fall no...
BMCR 2004.10.27The Chronography of George Synkellos: A Byzantine Chronicle of Universal History from the Creation
Synkellos Geōrgios, William Adler, Paul Tuffin / Oxford University Press, 2002
...Dexippus (c. 275 CE) and Julius Africanus (c. 222 CE). Since the author often cites these sources and predecessors in the Greek and Roman narrative historical traditions, his work is...
BMCR 1999.07.18Cato. On Farming. De Agricultura: A Modern Translation with Commentary
Andrew Dalby / Prospect Books, 1998
...consulship of 195 BCE campaigning in Spain, was succeeded in that province by Scipio Africanus; in fact Cato was succeeded by P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, Africanus’ cousin (see Astin 51-2)....
BMCR 1997.08.021997.8.2, Vishnia, State, Society and Popular Leaders in Mid-Republican Rome
Rachel Feig Vishnia / Routledge, 1996
...are to be rejected (22-23). If we are to follow V. here, then we must believe that the human sacrifice prescribed by the Sibylline Oracle in 228 in order to...
BMCR 1995.07.061995.07.06, Eckstein, Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius
Arthur M. Eckstein / University of California Press, 1995
...main objectives of the Social War of 220-217 B.C., the liberation of Delphi from Aetolian control (4.25.8), and that Polybius glosses over this failure in his account of the Treaty...
BMCR 2015.09.40Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War. Ancient warfare and civilization
Dexter Hoyos / Oxford University Press, 2015
...the inexplicable delay of Hannibal’s brother Hasdrubal in bringing reinforcements from Spain, which could have turned the tide for Hannibal (115, 145, 151, 154, 170, 179, 196, 223). The military...
BMCR 2018.07.10The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic
Daniel S. Richter, William A. Johnson / Oxford University Press, 2017
...Christian Elite Culture in Roman Syria and the Near East”) notes how Syrian Christianity produced cultural warriors like Titian, yet several, such as Africanus, functioned within the court of Abgar...