A propos de l'auteur
Anthony Kaldellis is Professor of Classics at The Ohio State University, whose previous books include A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities, Romanland, The Christian Parthenon, and, as editor and translator, Prokopios: The Secret History.
Œuvres de Anthony Kaldellis
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade (Onassis Series in… (2017) 100 exemplaires
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire (2017) 76 exemplaires
Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (2008) 30 exemplaires
Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity (2004) 19 exemplaires
Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos (2006) — Directeur de publication — 16 exemplaires
Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature (Empire and After) (2013) 15 exemplaires
A new Herodotos : Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the fall of Byzantium, and the emergence of the West (2014) 7 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
The Histories, Volume I: Books 1-5 (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library) (2014) — Traducteur — 31 exemplaires
The Histories, Volume II: Books 6-10 (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library) (2014) — Traducteur — 26 exemplaires
Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity) (2012) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean (Oxford Handbooks) (2019) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
History as Literature in Byzantium: Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of… (2010) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
A Companion to Late Antique Literature (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (2018) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Medieval Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters) (2009) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Ancient states and infrastructural power : Europe, Asia, and America (2017) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Power and subversion in Byzantium : papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 2010 (2013) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Leadership and Community in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Raymond Van Dam (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity… (2020) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Kaldellis, Anthony
- Nom légal
- Καλδέλλης, Αντώνιος
- Date de naissance
- 1971-11-29
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Greece
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Athens, Greece
- Études
- University of Michigan (BA|1994|Ph.D|2001)
- Professions
- professor
classicist
historian - Organisations
- University of Chicago
The Ohio State University
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Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 19
- Aussi par
- 14
- Membres
- 507
- Popularité
- #48,898
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 49
- Langues
- 1
I liked this book because (a) the obvious objection that comes to mind in the first chapters (how did the Byzantine people exercise their purported powers in the absence of any kind of election?) is actually answered in subsequent chapters (the author's answer is that civil wars were essentially political contests), (b) the author also looks beyond the imperial city and brings the provinces into the discussion, and (c) he recounts the historiography of Byzantium in some detail, pointing out a number of influential early studies which seem to have started the general narrative of unchallenged theocracy. All in all this book is a refreshing reminder that historical truths can and should be questioned and that historical interpretations can be hamstrung if they are unquestionably tied to predetermined vantage points.… (plus d'informations)