Christopher A. Baron

Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9781107000971
• ISBN-10: 1107000971
• Artikelnr.: 35114444

Autorenporträt

Christopher A. Baron is an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where he teaches the history of Ancient Greece, the age of Alexander, Classical historiography, and democracy and the Greeks, as well as reading courses in Greek prose authors.

Inhaltsangabe

1. How to study a fragmentary historian
2. Timaeus' life and works
3. Timaeus' legacy: Rome and beyond
4. The distorting lens: Polybius and Timaeus
5. A stranger in a strange land? Timaeus in Athens
6. Polemical invective and the Hellenistic historian's craft
7. The missing link? Pythagoras and Pythagoreans in Timaeus
8. 'Just like a schoolboy': Timaeus and his speeches
9. Generic choices: the shape of Timaeus' Histories
10. Herodotean historiography in the Hellenistic age
11. Conclusion
Appendix A. New delimitations or translations
Appendix B. Philodemus, On Poems and Timaeus T 15b.