G. W. Bowersock
Auteur van Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
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G. W. Bowersock is professor emeritus of ancient history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His most recent book is From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition.
Werken van G. W. Bowersock
Daedalus, Summer 1976: Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1977) — Redacteur — 20 exemplaren
Approaches to the Second Sophistic: Papers presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Philological… (1974) — Redacteur — 5 exemplaren
Colloque genèvoi sur Symmaque : àholoccasion du mille six centième anniversaire du conflit de l'autel de la Victoire… (1986) 2 exemplaren
Pseudo-Xenophon 1 exemplaar
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Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (1988) — Medewerker — 190 exemplaren
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: I - Greek Literature (1985) — Medewerker, sommige edities — 60 exemplaren
Philo and Paul Among the Sophists: Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement (1997) — Voorwoord — 51 exemplaren
Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate (1990) — Medewerker — 43 exemplaren
Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (2000) — Medewerker — 9 exemplaren
Athenaeus and his world : reading Greek culture in the Roman Empire (2000) — Voorwoord — 8 exemplaren
Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition) (2008) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren
The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (Interdisciplinary… (2008) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World: Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin (2002) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
Studies In The Dionysiaca Of Nonnus (Supplementary Volume No.17 of the Cambridge Philological Society) (1994) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
Transactions of the American Philological Association. Volume 127 (1997) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
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- Bowersock, G. W.
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Opleiding
- Harvard University (AB, 1957)
Oxford University (BA, 1959)
Oxford University (D.Phil, 1962) - Organisaties
- Institute for Advanced Study (1980-2006)
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Oxford University Press as publisher was already a good hint that this wouldn't be an easy read, but I love to learn completely random facts about the world that are thoroughly reviewed and that I'll never need again, so I'm fine with that.
The topic itself is pretty obscure: A pre-islamic conflict between jewish Arabs in the territory of today's Yemen and christian Ethiopians at the other side of the Red Sea that is in the end not much more than a proxy war between the Byzantine and the Persian empires.
Bowerstock analyses and explains meticulously the body of source material, the power structure in the region, the influence of outside and historical powers like the Roman, Meroitic and Egyptian empires and the development of the conflict.
The lessons? Propaganda is everything, it's not about religion, and every aggressor always has good reasons.… (meer)
The topic itself is pretty obscure: A pre-islamic conflict between jewish Arabs in the territory of today's Yemen and christian Ethiopians at the other side of the Red Sea that is in the end not much more than a proxy war between the Byzantine and the Persian empires.
Bowerstock analyses and explains meticulously the body of source material, the power structure in the region, the influence of outside and historical powers like the Roman, Meroitic and Egyptian empires and the development of the conflict.
The lessons? Propaganda is everything, it's not about religion, and every aggressor always has good reasons.… (meer)
This is not a history of early Islam so much as an attempt to position early Islam in the surrounding cultures. I found it quite interesting.
I read this in German. The translation reads smoothly.
I read this in German. The translation reads smoothly.
The core thread of these lectures is an argument that the Greek novel,which flourished from the late first century to the fourth, draws themes and ideas from then-nascent Christianity. It can get useful to have a reference to the novels themselves on hand (such as Reardon's). Overall, an interesting if shortish book, covering texts which are not part of the most common classical education (with the one exception of the Philoctetes).
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The major downside to this work is Bowersock's clear, at times vitriolic disdain for the Emperor Julian and many of his policies. In the early part of the book, he writes seemingly as an apologist for Constantius II, portraying him in a far more favourable light than most other historians of the period. He castes Julian in the mold of a zealot and a bigot, and eventually as a persecutor of Christians, something which most historians stop short of. This is not the book one should read first on Julian, as I can imagine it would colour one's views irrevocably against the man.
Despite this, however, Bowersock's writing is clear, his style engaging, and his research clearly meticulous. If one is able to see beyond the surface layer of strongly opinionated commentary, an incredible amount of knowledge in a short run of pages (only 119 for the main section) is revealed. For that reason, this is a must-read for anyone with a solid background knowledge of Julian, looking to learn more.… (meer)