Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography
By: Christopher A. Baron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781107000971
Subjects: Historiography; Criticism and interpretation; Historians; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How to Study a Fragmentary Historian; title: Timaeus' Life and Works; title: Timaeus' Legacy : Rome and Beyond; title: The Distorting Lens : Polybius and Timaeus; title: A Stranger in a Strange Land? Timaeus in Athens; title: Polemical Invective and the Hellenistic Historian's Craft; title: The Missing Link? Pythagoras and Pythagoreans in Timaeus; title: "Just Like a Schoolboy" : Timaeus and His Speeches; title: Generic Choices : The Shape of Timaeus' Histories; title: Herodotean Historiography in the Hellenistic Age; title: Appendix A: New Delimitations or Translations; title: Appendix B: Philodemus, On Poems and Timaeus T 15b.