In his two works, the Romana, a history of the Roman people, and the Getica, a history of the Gothic people, the Illyrian historian Jordanes, whose modern reputation has started to improve, concludes in seemingly different, though in fact complementary, tones. There are clues about the seeming polarity of Jordanes’ respective endings in his detailed description of the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in the Getica. This battle, replete with epic flavour and Vergilian allusions, contains three poignant points : battle ought to be fought in the open ; the emperor is ultimately responsible for going to war ; opportunities, especially military ones, ought to be seized. These views reflect contemporary (sixth century) concerns, especially amongs...
The author analyses the Greek and Latin literary sources pertaining to Claudius Gothicus and the opi...
NADALI, Davide y Jordi VIDAL (eds.) The Other Face of the Battle. The Impact of War on Civilians in ...
Pārsvarā pētījumos par Pilsoņu karu galvenais akcents tiek likts uz jautājumu, kurš ir vainojams Pil...
The aim of this study is to propose a new interpretation of Jordanes’ famous work, De Origine Actibu...
This article presents a new interpretation of the historiographical production of Jordanes by situat...
The aim of this paper is to discuss the authorial persona of Jordanes: who he was, what was his reli...
The historiographical tradition marks the year 476 as the end of the Roman Empire in the West, being...
A Guerra Gótica é uma narrativa composta em três livros, que fazem parte da coleção História das Gue...
Late Antiquity is a moment of very important transformations in the Roman world. The institutional a...
The Epitome de Caesaribus is universally assumed to be a work of the late fourth or early fifth cent...
Cette thèse s’intéresse au récit des guerres contre les Perses et les Parthes dans l’œuvre de Plutar...
The Battle of Adrianople has been presented as a turning point in history by classical as well as by...
During the past twenty years, there has been a great change of conceptions and methods as far as the...
This project shows how the use of topographical elements impacted the development of siege warfare d...
The Battle of Philippes (42 BC) in Cassius Dio’s Roman History : an outline of the historian’s work....
The author analyses the Greek and Latin literary sources pertaining to Claudius Gothicus and the opi...
NADALI, Davide y Jordi VIDAL (eds.) The Other Face of the Battle. The Impact of War on Civilians in ...
Pārsvarā pētījumos par Pilsoņu karu galvenais akcents tiek likts uz jautājumu, kurš ir vainojams Pil...
The aim of this study is to propose a new interpretation of Jordanes’ famous work, De Origine Actibu...
This article presents a new interpretation of the historiographical production of Jordanes by situat...
The aim of this paper is to discuss the authorial persona of Jordanes: who he was, what was his reli...
The historiographical tradition marks the year 476 as the end of the Roman Empire in the West, being...
A Guerra Gótica é uma narrativa composta em três livros, que fazem parte da coleção História das Gue...
Late Antiquity is a moment of very important transformations in the Roman world. The institutional a...
The Epitome de Caesaribus is universally assumed to be a work of the late fourth or early fifth cent...
Cette thèse s’intéresse au récit des guerres contre les Perses et les Parthes dans l’œuvre de Plutar...
The Battle of Adrianople has been presented as a turning point in history by classical as well as by...
During the past twenty years, there has been a great change of conceptions and methods as far as the...
This project shows how the use of topographical elements impacted the development of siege warfare d...
The Battle of Philippes (42 BC) in Cassius Dio’s Roman History : an outline of the historian’s work....
The author analyses the Greek and Latin literary sources pertaining to Claudius Gothicus and the opi...
NADALI, Davide y Jordi VIDAL (eds.) The Other Face of the Battle. The Impact of War on Civilians in ...
Pārsvarā pētījumos par Pilsoņu karu galvenais akcents tiek likts uz jautājumu, kurš ir vainojams Pil...