Herodian’s World. Empire and Emperors in the III Century, Ed. by Alessandro Galimberti, Leiden-Boston 2022
Herodian’s World. Empire and Emperors in the III Century, Edited by Alessandro Galimberti, Brill, Leiden-Boston 2022, HRE 12, ISBN 978-90-04-50045-7
Introduction 1
Alessandro Galimberti
Part 1
Herodian’s Historiographical Thought
1 Narrative Technique and Genre: Herodian the Novelist? 21
Adam Kemezis
2 Speeches and Speech Units in Herodian: The Limitations of
Rhetoric? 47
Christopher Mallan
3 Caracalla on Stage: A Case Study in Herodian’s Dramatic Historiography
and Reader-Response 70
Mario Baumann
4 Herodian, Memory and Judgement: Emperors and Their Death 88
Karine Laporte and Olivier Hekster
5 Βασιλεύς, δεσπότης or ἄρχων? Thoughts on the Lexicon of the Emperor and the Principate in Herodian’s Work 110
Agnès Arbo
6 Herodian and the Paideia of the Good Emperor: The Case of Severus Alexander 133
Umberto Roberto
7 Religion in Herodian 154
Alessandro Galimberti
Part 2
Themes of Herodian Historiography: Politics, Army and Geography
8 The demos in Herodian 173
Daniela Motta
9 The Attitude of Herodian towards the Roman Senate 202
Pierangelo Buongiorno
10 Herodian’s Perception of the Provincial Reality 222
Agnès Bérenger
11 The Emperor, the Coin, the Soldiers 241
Pierfrancesco Porena
12 Landscape and Geography in Herodian’s Work 261
Maria Ruiz del Árbol Moro
13 Herodian and the Italic Peninsula 280
Laura Mecella
14 The Iranian World of Herodian 301
Omar Coloru
Index 323
