Aristodemos (historian)
Aristodemos ( Greek Ἀριστόδημος Aristódēmos ) was an ancient Greek historian . His lifetime is uncertain and controversial in research; he cannot be identified with any other known bearer of the name. A papyrus discovered in 1962 with an excerpt from his historical work is dated to the 2nd century, which gives a terminus ante quem .
Aristodemus was the author of a historical work in several books, only fragments of which have survived. A longer fragment from two books of the work has been preserved in a manuscript from Mount Athos , today in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris. There the Greco-Persian disputes from the reign of Xerxes to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War (431 BC) are dealt with. Two other fragments attributed to the work come from Scholia .
The information content is low; Aristodemus presumably relied on summarizing representations with a strongly proathenic tendency. Charlotte Schubert has suggested that Aristodemus be viewed as an atthidographer who wrote an Athenian local history ( Atthis ). Pietro Maria Liuzzo, on the other hand, took the view that the name Aristodemos does not designate the author, but the end of another (fragmented) excerpt.
Editions and translations
- The Fragments of the Greek Historians , No. 104
- Frances Pownall: Aristodemus (104). In: Brill's New Jacoby (with English translation, commentary and research discussion).
literature
- Eduard Schwartz : Aristodemus 32 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 926-929 (outdated research status).
- Charlotte Schubert : Aristodemos (Codex Parisinus Supplementum Graecum 607, fol. 83v – 85r; 86v – 87v): A new Greek atthidograph? In: Klio 96, 2014, pp. 1–25.
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo: "Aristodemo" in Cod. Par. Suppl. Gr. 607 . In: Erga-Logoi. Rivista di storia, letteratura, diritto e culture dell'antichità . Volume 2 (2015), pp. 101-122 ( online ).
Remarks
- ↑ Frances Pownall: Aristodemos (104). Biographical essay. In: Brill's New Jacoby .
- ↑ Oxyrhynchus Papyri 27, No. 2469.
- ↑ See Pawel Janiszewski: The Missing Link. Greek Pagan Historiography in the Second Half of the Third Century and in the Fourth Century AD. Warszawa 2006, p. 22f.
- ↑ The book numbers are uncertain, see Frances Pownall: Aristodemos (104). In: Brill's New Jacoby , Fragment 1, Commentary § 4.
- ↑ Codex Parisinus suppl. Graecus 607 = fragment 1.
- ↑ Frances Pownall: Aristodemos (104). Biographical essay. In: Brill's New Jacoby .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aristodemus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἀριστόδημος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ancient Greek historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1st century or 2nd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | uncertain: 2nd century or 3rd century |