{"product_id":"timaeus-of-tauromenium-and-hellenistic-historiography-9781107000971","title":"Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Baron has produced a highly readable and engaging study … this book is certain to play an integral role in future discussions of Hellenistic historiography.' Liv Mariah Yarrow, Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768959238487,"sku":"9781107000971","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/timaeus-of-tauromenium-and-hellenistic-historiography-9781107000971","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}