| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
How to study a fragmentary historian -- Timaeus' life and works -- Timaeus' legacy : Rome and beyond -- The distorting lens : Polybius and Timaeus -- A stranger in a strange land? Timaeus in Athens -- Polemical invective and the Hellenistic historian's craft -- The missing link? Pythagoras and Pythagoreans in Timaeus -- "Just like a schoolboy" : Timaeus and his speeches -- Generic choices : the shape of Timaeus' histories -- Herodotean historiography in the Hellenistic age -- Appendix A: New delimitations or translations -- Appendix B: Philodemus, on poems and Timaeus T 15b |
| Summary |
A new evaluation of Timaeus of Tauromenium treating his fragments and Hellenistic historiography, in their proper context |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Timaeus, of Tauromenium, approximately 356 B.C.-260 B.C
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Timaeus, of Tauromenium, approximately 356 B.C.-260 B.C. -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Timaeus, of Tauromenium, approximately 356 B.C.-260 B.C. fast |
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Historians -- Greece -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Historians
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Historiography
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Historiography
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781139624824 |
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1139624822 |
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9780511733246 |
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0511733240 |
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9781139608435 |
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1139608436 |
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