Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography /
Baron, Christopher A.,1973-author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-288) and indexes.
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.
Timaeus, of Tauromenium, approximately 356 B.C.-260 B.C.
Timaeus, of Tauromenium, approximately 356 B.C.-260 B.C.
Historians