Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography - Couverture rigide

Baron, Christopher A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107000971 ISBN 13 : 9781107000971

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Baron Christopher A

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Timaeus of Tauromenium (350–260 BC) wrote the authoritative work on the Greeks in the Western Mediterranean and was important through his research into chronology and his influence on Roman historiography. Like almost all the Hellenistic historians, however, his work survives only in fragments. This book provides an up-to-date study of his work and shows that both the nature of the evidence and modern assumptions about historical writing in the Hellenistic period have skewed our treatment and judgement of lost historians. For Timaeus, much of our evidence is preserved in the polemical context of Polybius' Book 12. When we move outside that framework and examine the fragments of Timaeus in their proper context, we gain a greater appreciation for his method and his achievement, including his use of polemical invective and his composition of speeches. This has important implications for our broader understanding of the major lines of Hellenistic historiography.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107000971
• ISBN 13: 9781107000971
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316