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Commanding Texts: Knowledge-ordering, Identity Construction and Ethics in 'Military Manuals’ of the Roman Empire

Citation

Chiritoiu, D. A. (2018). Commanding Texts: Knowledge-ordering, Identity Construction and Ethics in 'Military Manuals’ of the Roman Empire (Doctoral thesis). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.21226

Abstract

Summary of Commanding texts: Knowledge-ordering, identity construction and ethics in 'military manuals’ of the Roman Empire By Daniel Alexandru Chiritoiu This thesis is about ‘military manuals’ produced in the first few centuries of the Roman imperial period. It argues that these texts merit far more attention and appreciation than they have received in the scholarship so far. I will explore areas such as the way in which their authors order and rank Greek and Roman knowledge, engage with ideas about knowledge and power, help construct identity and discuss ethics and behavior. In the first chapter I will determine whether the authors operate within a specific ‘genre’, or ‘genres’, of military writing. Then I will explore how the texts relate to other traditions of technical texts, questions of audience, and finally the issue of their practicality. The second chapter will examine how authors tackle the issue of ‘Greek’ and ‘Roman’ knowledge, categorize, rank and use it for self-promotion. We will see how Roman knowledge is both subverted but also praised, and how Greek knowledge is at the same time placed above Roman knowledge and integrated into a narrative of continuity with it. The third chapter will focus on the use of Greek knowledge in the construction of Roman identity. I will explore how ‘manuals’ play a part in the identity of the Roman Empire, fitting into a picture of unity in diversity, and show how they contribute to Hadrian’s self-presentation. The fourth chapter will examine the ethical component in manuals. I will determine whether there was an ethical code of conduct in battle in the Classical world and whether it was different from general ethical norms. Then, we will examine whether our texts engage in any way with this ‘code’ and whether their individual approaches have anything in common or are fundamentally different.

Keywords

Military manuals, Arrian, Aelian, Frontinus, Polyaenus, Onasander, technical literature, historiography, Roman history, Greek history, Second Sophistic, Roman Empire, Greek knowledge, Roman knowledge, military history, generalship, cultural history, tactical texts, tactics, artillery manuals, siegecraft, Greek and Roman experts

Sponsorship

AHRC award, King's College Studentship, Faculty of Classics studentship

Embargo Lift Date

2019-03-20

Identifiers

This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.21226

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Open Access Journal: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative

[Firsts posted in AWOL 17 June 2011, updated 9 December 2018]

Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative
Electronic ISSN: 2162-5603

The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is the official journal of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium. It publishes the proceedings of the annual TEI Conference and Members' Meeting and special thematic issues: state-of-the-art reports on electronic textual editing, current trends in TEI encoding, and new use cases for TEI. It furthermore provides a forum for articles on the discussion of the interface between the TEI and other communities, and more generally of the role of technological standards in the digital humanities, including digital scholarly editing, linguistic analysis, corpora creation, and newer areas such as mass digitization, semantic web research, and editing within virtual worlds.

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  Selected Papers from the 2015 TEI Conference

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  Selected Papers from the 2011 TEI Conference
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  TEI and Linguistics
• Issue 2 | February 2012
  Selected Papers from the 2010 TEI Conference
• Issue 1 | June 2011
  Selected Papers from the 2008 and 2009 TEI Conferences

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Open Access Journal: El Futuro del Pasado

[First posted in AWOL 21 June 2010. Updated 8 December 2018 (new host)]

El Futuro del Pasado. Revista electrónica de Historia

ISSN: 1989-9289

El Futuro del Pasado. Revista electrónica de Historia pretende ser un espacio abierto para el diálogo y el debate entre investigadores de diferentes áreas de conocimiento que tienen como objeto de estudio el pasado en sus diferentes vertientes. Se trata de una herramienta para la investigación, la divulgación y la crítica, ajena a cualquier tipo de partidismo ideológico o clientelismo de cualquier signo.

El Futuro del Pasado busca ayudar a superar los muros que separan a los historiadores, tratando de romper barreras entre las diferentes áreas afines de conocimiento y estableciendo lazos para la colaboración en un mundo en el que se da cada vez más importancia a la competencia.

Las nuevas tecnologías permiten, a quienes saben hacer de ellas un aliado, superar las barreras económicas y difundir gratuitamente la cultura por todo el territorio nacional y más allá de nuestras fronteras. Se muestra como una evidencia que cada vez es más importante la generación y comunicación académica del conocimiento científico a través de la Red. El Futuro del Pasado pretende contribuir a esta transmisión libre y gratuita del conocimiento científico.

«El Futuro del Pasado» ha sido aceptada para su indexación en el Emerging Sources Citation Index, la nueva edición de Web of Science. Los contenidos de este índice están siendo evaluados por Thomson Reuters para su inclusión en Science Citation Index Expanded™, Social Sciences Citation Index®, y  Arts & Humanities Citation Index®. Web of Science se diferencia de otras bases de datos por la calidad y solidez del contenido que proporciona a los investigadores, autores, editores e instituciones. La inclusión de «El Futuro del Pasado» en el Emerging Sources Citation Index pone de manifiesto la dedicación que estamos llevando a cabo para proporcionar a nuestra comunidad científica los contenidos disponibles más importantes e influyentes.

2018

Vol. 9 (2018): Historias en la Música y Músicas en la Historia

El Futuro del Pasado, n.º 9 (2018)
enero-diciembre 2018
Coord. Judith Helvia García Martín

2017

Vol. 8 (2017): Desigualdad

El Futuro del Pasado, n.º 8 (2017)
enero-diciembre 2017
Coord. David Carvajal de la Vega

2016

Vol. 7 (2016): Mitologías en la cultura popular actual

El Futuro del Pasado, n.º 7 (2016)
enero-diciembre 2016
Coord. Sara Molpeceres Arnáiz

2015

Vol. 6 (2015): Religión, Deporte y Espectáculo

El Futuro del Pasado, n.º 6 (2015)
enero-diciembre 2015
Coord. Juan Ramón Carbó García

2014

Vol. 5 (2014): Cine e Historia: revisiones metodológicas y críticas

El Futuro del Pasado, n.º 5 (2014)
enero-diciembre 2014
Coord. Beatriz Leal Riesco

2013

Vol. 4 (2013): La Infancia: Historia y Representación

El Futuro del Pasado, n.º 4 (2013)
enero-diciembre 2013
Coord. Laura Sánchez Blanco

2012

Vol. 3 (2012): Historia y Género: Nuevas perspectivas

El Futuro del Pasado, n.º 3 (2012)
enero-diciembre 2012
Coord. Iván Pérez Miranda

2011

Vol. 2 (2011): Razón, Utopía y Sociedad

El Futuro del Pasado, n.º 2 (2011)
enero-diciembre 2011

2010

Vol. 1 (2010): El Futuro del Pasado

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Open Access Monograph Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC)

[First posted in AWOL 12 September 2015, updated 8 December 2018]

Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC)
ISSN: 0081-7554

• SAOC 70. Essays for the Library of Seshat: Studies Presented to Janet H. Johnson on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday. Edited by Robert K. Ritner. 2017.
• SAOC 72. The Ritual Landscape at Persepolis. Mark B. Garrison. 2017.
• SAOC 69. Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Edited by José M. Galán, Betsy M. Bryan, and Peter F. Dorman. 2014.
• SAOC 68. Extraction & Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper. Edited by Michael Kozuh, Wouter F. M. Henkelman, Charles E. Jones, and Christopher Woods. 2014.
• SAOC 67. Language and Nature: Papers Presented to John Huehnergard on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Edited by Rebecca Hasselbach and Na’ama Pat-El. 2012.
• SAOC 66. Pesher Nahum: Texts and Studies in Jewish History and Literature from Antiquity through the Middle Ages Presented to Norman (Nahum) Golb. Edited by Joel L. Kraemer and Michael G. Wechsler with the participation of Fred Donner, Joshua Holo, and Dennis Pardee. 2012
• SAOC 65. Perspectives on Ptolemaic Thebes. Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop. Peter F. Dorman and Betsy M. Bryan, eds. 2011.
• SAOC 64. Grammatical Case in the Languages of the Middle East and Europe. Acts of the International Colloquium Variations, concurrence et evolution des cas dans divers domaines linguistiques, Paris, 2-4 April 2007. Edited by Michèle Fruyt, Michel Mazoyer, and Dennis Pardee. 2011.
• SAOC 63. Beyond the Ubaid: Transformation and integration in the late prehistoric societies of the middle east. Edited by Robert A. Carter and Graham Philip. 2010.
• SAOC 62. Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18–22, 2005. 2008.
• SAOC 54, 4th Printing. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice, 4th Printing. R. K. Ritner. Originally published in 2008.
• SAOC 61. Sacred Space and Sacred Function in Ancient Thebes. Peter F. Dorman and Betsy M. Bryan, ed. 2007.
• SAOC 60. Studies in Semitic and Afroasiatic Linguistics Presented to Gene B. Gragg. Cynthia L. Miller, ed. 2007.
• SAOC 59. Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and Neighboring Lands in Memory of Douglas L. Esse. Samuel R. Wolff, ed. 2001.
• SAOC 58. Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente. E. Teeter and J. A. Larson, eds. 1999.
• SAOC 57. The Presentation of Maat: Ritual and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt. By Emily Teeter. Originally published in 1997.
• SAOC 56. Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt (I-IV Centuries A.D.) with a Catalog of Portrait Mummies in Egyptian Museums. By Lorelei H. Corcoran. Originally published in 1995.
• SAOC 55. For His Ka: Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer. D. P. Silverman, ed. 1994.
• SAOC 54. The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice. R. K. Ritner. 1993.
• SAOC 53. Glass from Quseir al-Qadim and the Indian Ocean Trade. C. Meyer. 1992.
• SAOC 52. A Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text (P. Brooklyn 47.218.135). R. Jasnow. 1992.
• SAOC 51. Life in a Multi-Cultural Society: Egypt from Cambyses to Constantine and Beyond. Janet Johnson.
• SAOC 50. Subsistence, Trade, and Social Change in Early Bronze Age Palestine. D. L. Esse. 1991.
• SAOC 49. A Critical Study of the Temple Scroll from Qumran Cave 11. M. O. Wise. 1990.
• SAOC 48. Egyptian Phyles in the Old Kingdom: The Evolution of a System of Social Organization. By Ann Macy Roth. Originally published in 1991. D. L. Esse. 1991.
• SAOC 47. Essays in Ancient Civilization Presented to Helene J. Kantor. A. Leonard, Jr. and B. B. Williams, eds. 1989.
• SAOC 46. The Organization of Power: Aspects of Bureaucracy in the Ancient Near East. McGuire Gibson and Robert D. Biggs, eds. (Second Edition with Corrections). Originally published in 1991.
• SAOC 45. Thus Wrote ‘Onchsheshonqy - An Introductory Grammar of Demotic (Third Edition). Janet H. Johnson. Third edition, 2000.
• SAOC 44. Nippur Neighborhoods. E. C. Stone. 1987.
• SAOC 43. A Neolithic Village at Tell El Kowm in the Syrian Desert. R. Dornemann. 1986.
• SAOC 42, 2nd Edition. The Road to Kadesh: A Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak, 2nd Edition. W. J. Murnane. Originally published in 1990.
• SAOC 42. The Road to Kadesh: A Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak. W. J. Murnane. Originally published in 1985.
• SAOC 41. Ecology and Empire: The Structure of the Urartian State. Paul E. Zimansky. Originally published in 1985.
• SAOC 40. Ancient Egyptian Coregencies. By William J. Murnane. Originally published in 1977.
• SAOC 39. Studies in Honor of George R. Hughes, January 12, 1977. J. H. Johnson and E. F. Wente, eds. 1976.
• SAOC 38. The Demotic Verbal System. Janet H. Johnson. Second printing, with corrections, 2004.
• SAOC 37. The Book of the Dead or Going Forth by Day: Ideas of the Ancient Egyptians Concerning the Hereafter as Expressed in Their Own Terms. Translated by Thomas George Allen. Originally published in 1974. 
• SAOC 36. The Hilly Flanks and Beyond: Essays on the Prehistory of Southwestern Asia Presented to Robert J. Braidwood, November 15, 1982. T. Cuyler Young, Jr., Philip E. L. Smith, and Peder Mortensen, editors. Originally published in 1983.
• SAOC 35. Studies in Honor of John A. Wilson. E. B. Hauser, ed. 1969.
• SAOC 34. A Study of the Ba Concept in Ancient Egyptian Texts. By Louis V. Zabkar. Originally published in 1968.
• SAOC 33. Late Ramesside Letters. By Edward F. Wente. Originally published in 1967.
• SAOC 32. Patterns in the Early Poetry of Israel. Stanley Gevirtz. Originally published in 1963.
• SAOC 31. Prehistoric Investigations in Iraqi Kurdistan. R. J. Braidwood and B. Howe. 1960.
• SAOC 30. Wall Scenes from the Mortuary Chapel of the Mayor Paser at Medinet Habu. By Siegfried Schott. Translated By Elizabeth B. Hauser. Originally published in 1957.
• SAOC 28. Saite Demotic Land Leases. By George Robert Hughes. Originally published in 1952.
• SAOC 27. Occurrences of Pyramid Texts with Cross Indexes of These and Other Egyptian Mortuary Texts. By Thomas George Allen. Originally published in 1950.
• SAOC 26. The Calendars of Ancient Egypt. By Richard A. Parker. Originally published in 1950.
• SAOC 25. The Comparative Archeology of Early Mesopotamia. A. L. Perkins. 1949 (7th printing, 1977).
• SAOC 25. The Comparative Archeology of Early Mesopotamia. Ann Louise Perkins. Originally published in 1949.
• SAOC 24. Babylonian Chronology, 626 B.C. - A.D. 45. Richard A. Parker and Waldo H. Dubberstein. Originally published in 1942.
• SAOC 23. The Comparative Stratigraphy of Early Iran. Donald E. McCown. Originally published in 1942.
• SAOC 22. Hurrians and Subarians. Ignace J. Gelb. Originally published in 1944.
• SAOC 21. Hittite Hieroglyphs 3. Ignace J. Gelb. Originally published in 1942.
• SAOC 20. Animal Remains from Tell Asmar Max Hilzheimer. 1941.
• SAOC 19. The Coregency of Ramses II with Seti I and the Date of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak. By Keith C. Seele. Originally published in 1940.
• SAOC 18. The Hyksos Reconsidered. Robert M. Engberg. Originally published in 1939.
• SAOC 17. Notes on the Megiddo Pottery of Strata VI-XX. Geoffrey M. Shipton. Originally published in 1939.
• SAOC 16. The Monasteries of the Fayyum. By Nabia Abbott. Originally published in 1937.
• SAOC 15. The Kurrah Papyri from Aphrodito in the Oriental Institute. Nabia Abbott. Originally published in 1938.
• SAOC 14. Hittite Hieroglyphs 2. Ignace J. Gelb. Originally published in 1935.
• SAOC 13. The Oriental Origin of Hellenistic Kingship. Calvin W. McEwan. Originally published in 1934.
• SAOC 12. Historical Records of Ramses III: The Texts in Medinet Habu Volumes 1 and 2. Translated With Explanatory Notes. By William F. Edgerton and John A. Wilson. Originally published in 1936.
• SAOC 11. Epiphanius’ Treatise on Weights and Measures: The Syriac Version. James Elmer Dean, ed. With a Foreword by Martin Sprengling. Originally published in 1935.
• SAOC 10. Notes on the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Pottery of Megiddo. Robert M. Engberg and Geoffrey M. Shipton. Originally published in 1934.
• SAOC 9. Die Pakhy-Sprache. Julius von Meszaros. Originally published in 1934.
• SAOC 8. The Thutmosid Succession. By William F. Edgerton. Originally published in 1933.
• SAOC 7. Plano-Convex Bricks and the Methods of Their Employment; II. The Treatment of Clay Tablets in the Field. Pinhas Delougaz. Originally published in 1933.
• SAOC 6. Kitab al-Zahrah: The Book of the Flower. Composed by Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Abi Sulaiman Dawud Al-Isfahani. A. R. Nykl, ed. In collaboration with Ibrahim Tuqan. Originally published in 1932.
• SAOC 5. A New Inscription of Xerxes from Persepolis Ernst E. Herzfeld. 1932.
• SAOC 4. Archeology and the Sumerian Problem. Henri Frankfort. Originally published in 1932.
• SAOC 3. Die Hethitische Bilderschrift. Emil O. Forrer. Originally published in 1932.
• SAOC 2. Hittite Hieroglyphs 1. Ignace J. Gelb. Originally published in 1931.
• SAOC 1. Notes on Egyptian Marriage Chiefly in the Ptolemaic Period. William F. Edgerton. Originally published in 1931.

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Rethinking the Third Century CE: Contemporary Historiography and Political Narrative

Rethinking the Third Century CE: Contemporary Historiography and Political Narrative

Citation

Andrews, G. (2019). Rethinking the Third Century CE: Contemporary Historiography and Political Narrative (Doctoral thesis). https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.33668

Abstract

This thesis challenges one of the fundamental assumptions about Rome’s political upheaval in the third century CE. This period is conventionally defined by the growing political influence of the army at the expense of the Senate, after the Severan emperors made it clear that their hold on power rested on military support. The soldiers would grow bolder in asserting their position, eventually coming to overthrow emperors at will. I present a broad reassessment of the evidence for a historical model which derives from the narratives of two contemporary witnesses, Cassius Dio and Herodian. Dio is the subject of my first discussion. I address two problems. Firstly, Dio’s contemporary history survives only through Byzantine epitomes and excerpts. Its irreparable alteration means that Dio’s later books cannot be treated in their own terms, but have to be contextualised against the wider thematic framework of his thousand-year account. Secondly, I turn to Dio himself. Within that framework, Dio presents himself as the ideal senatorial historian. In doing so, he is able to define a uniform senatorial experience, which excludes everything else as deriving from military corruption. An analysis of Herodian follows, also in two parts. The first analyses Herodian’s construction of Roman society into three constituent parts, Senate, army and people. I show how these simplistically homogenous social units allow Herodian to explore imperial character, even as they cause inconsistencies in his political narrative. I then address Herodian’s account of Maximinus Thrax. This narrative has been presented as the historical culmination of the army taking over politically. I argue instead that it represents the climax of Herodian’s rhetorical scheme. Overall, the model of political conflict is built on two contemporary accounts which have specific reasons to simplify matters in their presentation of political activity. In order to understand the nature of political change in this period, I argue that it is necessary to move beyond them.

Keywords

Cassius Dio, Herodian, Roman history, third century crisis, third century, roman historiography, ancient historiography

Sponsorship

PhD funded by the AHRC.

Identifiers

This record's DOI:https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.33668

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Open Access Journal: ISIMU: Revista sobre Oriente Próximo y Egipto en la antigüedad

 [First posted in AWOL 18 February 2011. Updated 7 December 2018 (New host)]

ISIMU: Revista sobre Oriente Próximo y Egipto en la antigüedad
ISSN: 1575-3492

Isimu es una revista de periodicidad anual. Sus secciones separadas -dedicadas a los ámbitos originalmente definidos como Asiriología y Egiptología- están abiertas a estudios y resultados de la investigación hoy repartida entre historia, arqueología y filología, pero también y por su propia y declarada voluntad interdisciplinar, a los de las ciencias exactas, físicas y naturales alcanzados en las mismas áreas de Oriente Próximo y Egipto.

2016

Vol. 18 (2016): Vol. 18-19: De Egipto y otras tierras lejanas

2013

Vol. 16 (2013)

2012

Vol. 15 (2012): Vol. 14-15 (2011-2012)

2009

Vol. 13 (2009)

Vol. 12 (2009): Vol. 11-12

2007

Vol. 10 (2007)

2006

Vol. 9 (2006)

2005

Vol. 8 (2005)

2004

Vol. 7 (2004)

2003

Vol. 6 (2003)

2002

Vol. 5 (2002)

2001

Vol. 4 (2001)

2000

Vol. 3 (2000)

1999

Vol. 2 (1999)

1998

Vol. 1 (1998)

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