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Presents and contextualises extracts from the Historical Library of Diodorus.

There are only a few detailed histories of Persia from Ancient Greek historiography that have survived time. Diodorus of Sicily, a first century BC author, is the only one to have written a comprehensive history (the Bibliotheca Historica or Historical Library) in which more than cursory attention is paid to Persia. The Bibliotheca Historica covers the entire period from Persia's prehistory until the arrival of the Parthians from the East and that of Roman power throughout Asia Minor and beyond from the West, around 750 years after Assyrian rule ended.

Diodorus' contribution to our knowledge of Persian history is therefore of great value for the modern historian of the Ancient Near East and in this book Jan Stronk provides the first complete translation of Diodorus' account of the history of Persia. He also examines and evaluates both Diodorus' account and the sources he used to compose his work, taking into consideration the historical, political and archaeological factors that may have played a role in the transmission of the evidence he used to acquire the raw material underlying his Bibliotheca.

History, Ancient --- Historiography --- Diodorus, --- Iran --- History --- E-books --- Historiography. --- Bibliotheca historica (Diodorus, Siculus) --- To 640 --- Diodori Siculi Bibliotheca historica (Diodorus, Siculus) --- Library of history (Diodorus, Siculus) --- Diodori Bibliotheca historica (Diodorus, Siculus) --- Vivliothēkē (Diodorus, Siculus)

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"This book involves a new historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works as well as its role as a source of Diodorus' Bibliotheke. The traditional and common approach taken by those who studied the HO is primarily historical: scholars have focused on particular, often isolated, topics such as the question of the authorship, the historical perspective of the HO against other Hellenica from the 4th century BC. This book is unconventional in that it offers a study of the HO and fifth- and fourth-century historical works supported by papyrological enquiries and literary strategies, such as intertextuality and narratology, which will undoubtedly contribute to the progress of research in ancient historiography"--Provided by publisher.

History, Ancient --- Histoire ancienne --- Historiography. --- Research. --- Historiographie --- Recherche --- Diodorus, --- Hellenica Oxyrhynchia. --- Greece --- Grèce --- History --- Historiography --- Histoire --- Research --- Geschichtsschreibung. --- Diodorus / Siculus / Bibliotheca historica. --- Bibliotheca historica (Diodorus, Siculus). --- To 146 B.C. --- Greece. --- Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C. --- Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C --- To 146 B.C --- Grèce --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Griechenland --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Bibliotheca historica (Diodorus, Siculus) --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Diodori Siculi Bibliotheca historica (Diodorus, Siculus) --- Library of history (Diodorus, Siculus) --- Diodori Bibliotheca historica (Diodorus, Siculus) --- Vivliothēkē (Diodorus, Siculus) --- Gret͡sii͡ --- History, Ancient - Historiography --- History, Ancient - Research --- Diodorus, - Siculus. - Bibliotheca historica --- Greece - History - To 146 B.C. - Historiography --- Greece - History - Spartan and Theban supremacies, 404-362 B.C. - Historiography

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Dossier : L’individu, objet de tous les regards : telle est la perspective adoptée par ce dossier. Si le vêtement occupe une place centrale dans cette enquête, l’histoire des apparences ne s’y réduit pas. Traits physiques et de caractère, tenue extérieure et nudité étudiée, parures et coiffures, odeurs et attitudes, constituent un large ensemble de significations, celui du « vêtement total ». Moyens de catégorisation et d’évaluation morale, modes d’intervention délibérée dans le champ des interactions sociales, les manières de s’habiller et de se déshabiller témoignent d’un contrôle visuel quasi permanent exercé sur les corps depuis les mondes archaïques grec et étrusque jusqu’à la Rome impériale. Varia : Une série d’articles suit ce dossier thématique et aborde des sujets très variés : parmi d’autres, le mythe des Lemniennes, la question du statut des Muses, celle de la discorde (éris) dans les récits de fondation, l’implication du stratège athénien Timothée dans une guerre civile à Zakinthos au ive siècle, la représentation divine en Nabatène, la procédure de la description des œuvres d’art – ekphrasis – chez Philostrate, ou encore, dans une perspective méthodologique et historiographique, la pratique de la méthode comparative par les historiens anthropologues de la Grèce ancienne.

Clothing and dress --- Vêtements --- History --- Histoire --- Vêtements --- History & Archaeology --- Anthropology --- identité --- vêtement --- parfum --- Grèce ancienne --- saleté --- sordes --- nudité --- corps --- sport --- acte de parole --- lemniennes --- muse --- Théogonie --- Diodore de Sicile --- Éris --- syncrétismes religieux --- philosophie présocratique --- mythe --- Philostrate --- polythéisme --- comparatisme --- Ancient Greece --- athlete --- body --- polytheism --- comparison --- Philostratus --- myth --- Theogony --- Diodorus Siculus --- clothing --- identity --- nudity

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Opera developed during a time when the position of women-their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality-was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts-by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus-form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).

Women in opera. --- Opera --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- History and criticism --- 17th century. --- androgyny. --- antiquity. --- callisto. --- carthage. --- cavalli. --- chastity. --- classical. --- classicism. --- desire. --- dido. --- diodorus siculus. --- drama. --- empress. --- erotic. --- female characters. --- female power. --- female vocality. --- feminism. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- messalina. --- monteverdi. --- music. --- musicology. --- mythological women. --- mythology. --- nonfiction. --- nymph. --- octavia. --- opera women. --- opera. --- ovid. --- pallavicino. --- performing arts. --- purity. --- semiramis. --- sexuality. --- tacitus. --- theater. --- transvestism. --- venetian opera. --- virgil. --- women. --- womens rights. --- ziani.