Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A new evaluation of Timaeus of Tauromenium treating his fragments and Hellenistic historiography, in their proper context. Zusammenfassung This book offers a new examination of Timaeus of Tauromenium! a Sicilian historian and one of the first Greeks to devote attention to Rome. It presents methodological discussions of fragments! genre and speeches in their proper context! which will be useful for other areas of study in the ancient world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. How to study a fragmentary historian; 2. Timaeus' life and works; 3. Timaeus' legacy: Rome and beyond; 4. The distorting lens: Polybius and Timaeus; 5. A stranger in a strange land? Timaeus in Athens; 6. Polemical invective and the Hellenistic historian's craft; 7. The missing link? Pythagoras and Pythagoreans in Timaeus; 8. 'Just like a schoolboy': Timaeus and his speeches; 9. Generic choices: the shape of Timaeus' Histories; 10. Herodotean historiography in the Hellenistic age; 11. Conclusion; Appendix A. New delimitations or translations; Appendix B. Philodemus, On Poems and Timaeus T 15b.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher A Baron, Christopher A. Baron, Christopher A. (University of Notre Dame Baron, Baron Christopher A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2012
• EAN: 9781107000971
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00097-1
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory