The Making of Byzantine History: Studies dedicated to Donald M. Nicol

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The Making of Byzantine History: Studies dedicated to Donald M. NicolThe papers in this volume are united by a common questioning of the historical record on which we depend for our knowledge of "what happened" in Byzantium: the "making of history" in terms of how it was narrated, recorded and interpreted. The first sections analyze how Byzantine views of the future, as revealed in prophecy or prescription for the good life, and of the present, shaped contemporaries' perceptions of their current situation and affected

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those defining texts of the Augustan Age

Pliny and Palladius

wrote forty books of world history

represented in this edition by the Second

editor William S

and he found himself driven into exile in 58 BC

’ Lee Durrell

linguistic and textual interpretation of this brilliant text

His history of the first conflict

He argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue'

Ξεχύνεται σαν άνεμος και γίνεται πόλεμος