Timaeus of Tauromenium
Author | : Truesdell Sparhawk Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : Truesdell Sparhawk Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : Truesdell S. Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Christopher A. Baron |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107000971 |
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.
Author | : Nigel Wilson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 829 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113678800X |
Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Author | : Arnaldo Momigliano |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2012-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226533859 |
"Originally published 1977 by Basil Blackwell Oxford in Great Britain and by Wesleyan University Press in the United States."
Author | : Carl A. Huffman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 659 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139915983 |
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted to the early Pythagoreans, and the full breadth of Pythagorean thought is explored including politics, religion, music theory, science, mathematics and magic. Separate chapters consider Pythagoreanism in Plato, Aristotle, the Peripatetics and the later Academic tradition, while others describe Pythagoreanism in the historical tradition, in Rome and in the pseudo-Pythagorean writings. The three great lives of Pythagoras by Diogenes Laertius, Porphyry and Iamblichus are also discussed in detail, as is the significance of Pythagoras for the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Author | : Phillip Sidney Horky |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190465700 |
Was Plato a Pythagorean? Plato's students and earliest critics thought so, but later scholars have been more skeptical. Plato and Pythagoreanism reconsiders this question by arguing that a specific type of Pythagorean philosophy, called "mathematical" Pythagoreanism, played a profound role in Plato's philosophy.
Author | : Ernst Breisach |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2007-12-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226072835 |
In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women’s history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography. Praise for the first edition: “Breisach’s comprehensive coverage of the subject and his clear presentation of the issues and the complexity of an evolving discipline easily make his work the best of its kind.”—Lester D. Stephens, American Historical Review
Author | : Lisa Irene Hau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781474427135 |
Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across.
Author | : Diodorus (Siculus) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780674993075 |