Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography
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Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography
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Baron, Christopher A., 1973-
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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xiii, 301 p.
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.
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