Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century

James H. Richardson, Federico Santangelo

• Editore: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH
• Anno: 2015
• Edizione: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783515109680
• Argomento: History
• Categoria: Ancient History

Andreas Alföldi (1895–1981) was an eminent ancient historian, numismatist, archaeologist and epigraphist. His scholarly output, as vast as it was diverse, covered archaic Rome, the late Republic, the provinces of the Roman Empire, especially the Danube region, and late antiquity. Alföldi's work was marked by extraordinary erudition, by his ability to draw on all manner of evidence, no matter how disparate, and by astonishing fertility and originality, and yet, while a number of his publications remain influential, others – some of which were controversial even when they first appeared – are now largely ignored. This volume, which comes some thirty years after Alföldi's death and a century after his first publication (at just 19 years of age), contains a collection of papers that shed light on Alföldi's life and discuss his work on a variety of topics, from earliest Rome to late antiquity. It offers a wide-ranging assessment of Alföldi's arguments and ideas, both those that have been influential and those that have been superseded or neglected, and explores an academic career that began in Alföldi's native Hungary and ended in exile in the United States.

Indice dei contenuti

• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• ANDRÁS ALFÖLDI AND CLASSICAL STUDIES IN HUNGARY
• ANDREAS ALFÖLDI UND DIE ALTE GESCHICHTE IN DER SCHWEIZ
• ALFÖLDI E ROSTOVTZEFF
• EARLY ROME AND THE LATINS
• « LAVINIUM’S AUTHENTIC MYTH OF ORIGIN »
• ANDREAS ALFÖLDI AND THE ADVENTURE(S) OF THE VIBENNA BROTHERS
• SATURNIA REGNA REVISITED
• ALFÖLDI, CAESAR AND THE GERMAN TRADITION OF RESEARCH ON CAESAR
• PRINCE HÉRITIER ET PRINCEPS TOGATUS
• ANDREAS ALFÖLDI ON THE ROMAN EMPEROR AS PATER PATRIAE
• THE CRISIS OF THE THIRD CENTURY FROM MICHAEL ROSTOVTZEFF AND ANDREW ALFÖLDI TO RECENT DISCUSSIONS
• ANDREAS ALFÖLDI AND THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA
• ANDREAS ALFÖLDI AND CONSTANTINE
• ALFÖLDI AND THE CONTORNIATES
• DACIA … DIUTURNO BELLO DECIBALI VIRIS FUERAT EXHAUSTA.
• ROMAN PANNONIA FROM ANDREW ALFÖLDI TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
• GENERAL INDEX
• INDEX LOCORUM