Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and a Note -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Questions and Answers -- Chapter 2 Ephorus' Histories: The Method -- Chapter 3 Ephorus' Histories: The Contents -- Chapter 4 Ephorus the Universal Historian -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Ephorus and the Hellenika Oxyrhynchia -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index -- Index of Greek Words and Expressions
Summary
Through a careful study of the surviving fragmentary evidence, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the lost Histories of the fourth-century BC Greek historian Ephorus of Cyme, the first, according to Polybius, to have written a universal history
