Herod in History - Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context

Herod in History takes a modern, source-critical approach to Josephus' Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities to show how it relied heavily on Nicolaus of Damascus lost Universal History, and reassesses Nicolaus's contribution to the historiography of Herod the Great's reign.

List of contents

• 1: Herod and his Historians


• 2: Herod on the Rise


• 3: Herod the Saviour


• 4: Herod the Liberator


• 5: Herod the Husband


• 6: Herod and his Sons


• 7: Herod and the People s Front of Judaea


• Epilogue: Herod and the Worms

About the author

Kimberley Czajkowski teaches ancient history at the University of Edinburgh. She previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Münster.

Benedikt Eckhardt teaches ancient history at the University of Edinburgh. He previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bremen and the University of Münster.

Summary

Herod in History takes a modern, source-critical approach to Josephus' Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities to show how it relied heavily on Nicolaus of Damascus lost Universal History, and reassesses Nicolaus's contribution to the historiography of Herod the Great's reign.

Additional text

..very readable and thought-provoking volume.

Product details

• Authors: Czajkowski , Eckhardt , Kimberley Czajkowski, Kimberley (Senior Lecturer in Ancient Czajkowski, Kimberley (Senior Lecturer in Ancient History Czajkowski, Czajkowski Kimberley, Benedikt Eckhardt, Benedikt (Lecturer in Ancient History Eckhardt, Eckhardt Benedikt
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9780192845214
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284521-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Relating to Jewish people and groups, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Social groups: religious groups and communities