| Author |
Baron, Christopher A., 1973-
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| 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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Historians -- Greece -- Biography.
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Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Historiography.
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| Description |
1 online resource |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| ISBN |
9781139624824 (electronic bk.) |
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1139624822 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511733246 (electronic bk.) |
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0511733240 (electronic bk.) |
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9781107000971 |
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1107000971 |
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9781283870405 |
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1283870401 |
| OCLC # |
820719532 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Baron, Christopher A., 1973- Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107000971 (DLC) 2012023176 (OCoLC)796230116 |
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