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Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography /

A new evaluation of Timaeus of Tauromenium treating his fragments and Hellenistic historiography, in their proper context.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baron, Christopher A., 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.