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Author Baron, Christopher A., 1973-

Title Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography [electronic resource] / Christopher A. Baron.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description xiii, 301 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Timaeus, of Tauromenium, approximately 356-260 B.C.
Timaeus, of Tauromenium, approximately 356-260 B.C. -- Criticism and interpretation.
Historians -- Greece -- Biography.
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Historiography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781107000971 (hbk.)
9781139611800 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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