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UNINA9910452897903321 |
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Baron Christopher A. <1973-> |
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Titolo |
Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography / / Christopher A. Baron [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-107-23395-X |
1-139-60994-7 |
1-139-61180-1 |
1-139-61552-1 |
0-511-73324-0 |
1-139-60843-6 |
1-139-62482-2 |
1-283-87040-1 |
1-139-62110-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Historians - Greece |
Greece History To 146 B.C Historiography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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