Thukydides Second-Hand Bei Flavius Josephus : : Zur Rezeption Thukydideischer Motive Im Bellum Judaicum.
"Josephus was an historian with a Jewish identity and a Hellenistic consciousness. He created his work on a classical basis and thus consciously moved between Judaism and Hellenism. He tried to find his own way through the Jewish-Hellenistic labyrinth. To what extent did Josephus respect his ow...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne, Supplements Series ; v.473 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | German |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, Supplements Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
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| Summary: | "Josephus was an historian with a Jewish identity and a Hellenistic consciousness. He created his work on a classical basis and thus consciously moved between Judaism and Hellenism. He tried to find his own way through the Jewish-Hellenistic labyrinth. To what extent did Josephus respect his own ethnic identity as a Jew? To what extent does a protégé of the emperor deserve to be labelled a critical historian? The long shadow of Thucydides falls heavily on his work, therefore many stylistic and thematic parallels can be discovered. The reception of Thucydides by Josephus constitutes an important source for the history of the dissemination of Thucydidean work in the first century AD"-- |
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| ISBN: | 9004545875 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |