Book contents
- Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography
- Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the text and abbreviations
- Chapter 1 How to study a fragmentary historian
- Chapter 2 Timaeus’ life and works
- Chapter 3 Timaeus’ legacy: Rome and beyond
- Chapter 4 The distorting lens: Polybius and Timaeus
- Chapter 5 A stranger in a strange land? Timaeus in Athens
- Chapter 6 Polemical invective and the Hellenistic historian’s craft
- Chapter 7 The missing link? Pythagoras and Pythagoreans in Timaeus
- Chapter 8 “Just like a schoolboy”: Timaeus and his speeches
- Chapter 9 Generic choices: the shape of Timaeus’ Histories
- Chapter 10 Herodotean historiography in the Hellenistic age
- Chapter 11 Conclusion
- Appendix A New delimitations or translations
- Appendix B Philodemus, On Poems and Timaeus T 15b
- References
- Index locorum
- General index
Chapter 11 - Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography
- Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the text and abbreviations
- Chapter 1 How to study a fragmentary historian
- Chapter 2 Timaeus’ life and works
- Chapter 3 Timaeus’ legacy: Rome and beyond
- Chapter 4 The distorting lens: Polybius and Timaeus
- Chapter 5 A stranger in a strange land? Timaeus in Athens
- Chapter 6 Polemical invective and the Hellenistic historian’s craft
- Chapter 7 The missing link? Pythagoras and Pythagoreans in Timaeus
- Chapter 8 “Just like a schoolboy”: Timaeus and his speeches
- Chapter 9 Generic choices: the shape of Timaeus’ Histories
- Chapter 10 Herodotean historiography in the Hellenistic age
- Chapter 11 Conclusion
- Appendix A New delimitations or translations
- Appendix B Philodemus, On Poems and Timaeus T 15b
- References
- Index locorum
- General index
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- Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography , pp. 256 - 259Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012