Andreas Alfoldi in the Twenty-First Century
| PUBLISHER | Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH (03/04/2015) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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Andreas Alfoldi (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. Alfoldi'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 Alfoldi's death and a century after his first publication (at just 19 years of age), contains a collection of papers that shed light on Alfoldi's life and discuss his work on a variety of topics, from earliest Rome to late antiquity. It offers a wide-ranging assessment of Alfoldi's arguments and ideas, both those that have been influential and those that have been superseded or neglected, and explores an academic career that began in Alfoldi's native Hungary and ended in exile in the United States.
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ISBN-13:
9783515109611
ISBN-10:
3515109617
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
French
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Page Count:
327
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1
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Bilingual,
Illustrated,
Multi-Lingual
Country of Origin:
GB
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BISAC Categories
History | Ancient - Rome
History | General
Dewey Decimal:
B
Library of Congress Control Number:
2015394578
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Andreas Alfoldi (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. Alfoldi'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 Alfoldi's death and a century after his first publication (at just 19 years of age), contains a collection of papers that shed light on Alfoldi's life and discuss his work on a variety of topics, from earliest Rome to late antiquity. It offers a wide-ranging assessment of Alfoldi'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 Alfoldi's native Hungary and ended in exile in the United States.
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Editor:
Santangelo, Federico
Federico Santangelo is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. His previous publications include Sulla, the Elites and the Empire: A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East (2007).
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