Review of Pothou, Thukydides second-hand bei Flavius Josephus

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Thukydides second-hand bei Flavius Josephus: zur Rezeption thukydideischer Motive im Bellum Judaicum.

Vassiliki Pothou, Thukydides second-hand bei Flavius Josephus: zur Rezeption thukydideischer Motive im Bellum Judaicum. Mnemosyne supplements, 473. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2023. Pp. xxvi, 255. ISBN 9789004545861.

Review by
Omar El Manfalouty, University of Zürich. omar.elmanfalouty@uzh.ch

Vassiliki Pothou has provided us with a comprehensive and immensely helpful overview of Thucydidean motifs in Josephus’s Judean War. That Josephus had read his Thucydides is, of course, not news, nor that he strove to emulate him. What Pothou’s study does offer is a valuable analysis of the means of such emulation, of the tangible philological traces of Josephus’s reception of Thucydides. ...

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