Books by Alexander Meeus
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Narrative In Hellenistic Historiography, 2018
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Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke, 2018
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Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 222, pp. 82-88., 2022
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Contrary to what seems to have become the majority opinion in recent decades, the words ἐνόπλιον ἅρματι refer to a single equestrian discipline, which must have been some form of armed chariot race: Hedea’s win constitutes a unique instance of a female victory in a civic hippic contest at the Isthmian Games.
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S. Schorn (ed.), Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued Part IV, Brill Online., 2021
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in S. Schorn (ed.), Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued Part IV, Brill Online., 2021
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in I. Worthington (ed.), Brill’s New Jacoby, Brill Online., 2021
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in A. Turner (ed.), Reconciling Ancient and Modern Philosophies of History (Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception 3), Berlin: De Gruyter 2020, 83-122., 2020
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in K. Trampedach & A. Meeus (edd.), The Legitimation of Conquest: Monarchical Representation and the Art of Government in the Empire of Alexander the Great (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 7), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2020, 291-317., 2020
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in K. Trampedach & A. Meeus (edd.), The Legitimation of Conquest: Monarchical Representation and the Art of Government in the Empire of Alexander the Great (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 7), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2020, 9-18., 2020
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K. Vandorpe (ed.), A Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), Hoboken, NJ: Wiley , 2019
Men and women traveling to or from Egypt in the Hellenistic and Roman periods including tourists,... more Men and women traveling to or from Egypt in the Hellenistic and Roman periods including tourists, hostages or prisoners of war, scholars, ambassadors and rulers. Despite the increased contact and knowledge Graeco-Roman views of Egyptian Religion with its animal cults still show little understanding. The concept of globalisation commonly applied to the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods needs to be understood in the very limited sense of a proto-globalisation, as D.T. Potts has called it.
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T. Howe & F. Pownall (edd.), Ancient Macedonians in the Greek and Roman Sources: From History to Historiography, Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2018
Analysis of the constantly shifting alliances amongst the Successors and their policy of expedien... more Analysis of the constantly shifting alliances amongst the Successors and their policy of expediency, including a discussion of the meaning of the term 'koinopragia' in Diodoros.
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A. Meeus (ed.), Narrative in Hellenistic Historiography (Histos Supplement 8), Newcastle upon Tyne: Histos, 2018
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L.I. Hau, A. Meeus & B. Sheridan (edd.), Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke (Studia Hellenistica 58), Leuven: Peeters, 2018
Scholarship on the general proem to Diodoros’ Bibliotheke has often focussed on its sources, whil... more Scholarship on the general proem to Diodoros’ Bibliotheke has often focussed on its sources, while current trends in Diodorean scholarship mostly stress originality. The evidence does not allow us to solve this problem, though, and the issue does not seem all that relevant anyway: it very much presupposes modern ideas of originality, so that to replace the old view of an unthinking copyist with the image of a highly original historian is simply to replace one misguided dogma with another. What matters is that the general proem to the Bibliotheke is an adequate reflection of Diodoros’ aims and entirely appropriate to the most common ancient view of historiography: indeed the proem contains all aspects of Cicero’s definition of history at De Oratore II 36 and reveals many parellels with the proems of contermporary Greek and Roman historians. Furthermore, all these functions of history as teacher, beacon of truth and memorial clearly form an integrated whole in Diodoros’ philosophy of history. As this was the standard view of historiography for over 2,000 years, it cannot simply be considered banal.
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Sacris Erudiri, 2017
Historiographical compilations are usually seen as a typical late antique and mediaeval phenomeno... more Historiographical compilations are usually seen as a typical late antique and mediaeval phenomenon. This paper argues that the compilatory method was already wide-spread in earlier centuries and indeed was the normal procedure for ancient authors dealing with the non-contemporary past, as can been seen from their reporting of traditions they did not necessarily believe, from the ubiquitous use of a single main source and the often indirect use of other sources, and from the persistence of old information over many centuries. As remarkable as this may seem to the modern scholar, it is hardly surprising when one considers the authority of tradition in the ancient world. For this reason it may be more productive to think about this phenomenon in terms of tradition rather than compilation.
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Brill's New Jacoby
Testimonia and fragments with translation and commentary
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Brill’s New Jacoby
Kyrsilos of Pharsalos (fragment & testimonium): edition, translation and commentary.
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Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. Part IV E. Paradoxography and Antiquities. IV 2. Antiquities, vol. 1, ed. by David Engels and Stefan Schorn, Leiden, forthcoming. (already available at Brill Online)
The fragments of Xenagoras' "On Islands": edition, translation and commentary.
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Contrary to what seems to have become the majority opinion in recent decades, the words ἐνόπλιον ἅρματι refer to a single equestrian discipline, which must have been some form of armed chariot race: Hedea’s win constitutes a unique instance of a female victory in a civic hippic contest at the Isthmian Games.
Contrary to what seems to have become the majority opinion in recent decades, the words ἐνόπλιον ἅρματι refer to a single equestrian discipline, which must have been some form of armed chariot race: Hedea’s win constitutes a unique instance of a female victory in a civic hippic contest at the Isthmian Games.
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