G. W. Bowersock
Autor de Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World
Sobre El Autor
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.
Obras de G. W. Bowersock
Daedalus, Summer 1976: Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1977) — Editor — 20 copias
Obras relacionadas
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (1988) — Contribuidor — 190 copias
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: I - Greek Literature (1985) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 60 copias
Philo and Paul Among the Sophists: Alexandrian and Corinthian Responses to a Julio-Claudian Movement (1997) — Prólogo — 51 copias
Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate (1990) — Contribuidor — 43 copias
Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (2000) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
The Sculptural Environment of the Roman Near East: Reflections on Culture, Ideology, and Power (Interdisciplinary… (2008) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World: Essays in Honour of Miriam Griffin (2002) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Studies In The Dionysiaca Of Nonnus (Supplementary Volume No.17 of the Cambridge Philological Society) (1994) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
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- Nombre canónico
- Bowersock, G. W.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1936-01-12
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Educación
- Harvard University (AB, 1957)
Oxford University (BA, 1959)
Oxford University (D.Phil, 1962) - Organizaciones
- 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.… (más)
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.… (más)
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.… (más)