Diodorus Siculus and the First Century /
Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus himself has been commonly seen as a "mere copyist" of earlier historical traditions, Kenneth...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1990]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION: The Argument
- CHAPTER ONE. Prooemia
- CHAPTER TWO. Themes in Historical Causality
- CHAPTER THREE. Culture's Progress
- CHAPTER FOUR. Aspects of History Writing
- CHAPTER FIVE. Diodorus on Rome
- CHAPTER SIX. Diodorus in the World of Caesar and Octavian
- CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIX ONE. Sicilian Enfranchisement
- APPENDIX TWO. Posidonius on Italian Knights
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES IN DIODORUS
- INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES IN OTHER AUTHORS
- INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT GREEK TERMS
- GENERAL INDEX.