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Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes’ invasion
In his Histories, Herodotus of Halicarnassus gave an account of Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480 BCE). Among the information in this work features a rich topography of the places visited by the army, as well as of the battlefields. Apparently there existed a certain demand among the Greeks to behold the exact places where they believed that the Greeks had fallen, gods had appeared, or Xerxes had watched over his men. This book argues that Herodotus’ topography, long taken at face value as if it provided unambiguous access to the historical sites of the war, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes’ invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them. It also prompts new suggestions about the real-world locations of various places mentioned in Herodotus’ text.
Roman Period Statuettes in the Netherlands and Beyond
The subject of this study is a relatively rare category of artefacts, bronze and terracotta statuettes that represent deities, human figures and animals. They were introduced in the northwestern provinces by Roman troops from the end of the 1st century BCE onwards. The statuettes have been recovered from military and non-military settlements, the surrounding landscape and, to a far lesser extent, from sanctuaries and graves. Until now, their meaning and function have seldom been analysed in relation to their find-spots. Contrary to traditional studies, they have been examined as one separate category of artefacts, which offers new insights into the distribution pattern and iconographic repre...
Wijn als een Romein
Als je de moderne techniek van het wijnmaken vergelijkt met de primitieve manier waarop de wijnmakers van een paar duizend jaar geleden hun druiventrossen plukten, platstampten en in open gistkuipen lieten rotten, dan is het een godswonder dat we nog steeds wijn drinken. Want ondanks alle vreselijkheden waaraan druiven honderden eeuwen lang zijn blootgesteld, zijn wij die kneiterzure, of mierzoete, of met wansmakelijke kruiden opgepimpte wijn altijd vrolijk blijven drinken. Een mirakel. Classicus Fik Meijer en wijnboer Ilja Gort schreven Wijn als een Romein. Na een inleiding over het ontstaan van wijn in de landen rond de Kaukasus en de doorbraak van wijn in het Nabije Oosten duiken ze in de...
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Handbook of Narrative Analysis
Sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories, providing the necessary skills to interpret any story that comes along.
