Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography / Christopher A. Baron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baron, Christopher A., 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Timaeus, of Tauromenium, approximately 356 B.C.-260 B.C.

Timaeus.

Timaeus, of Tauromenium, approximately 356 B.C.-260 B.C--Criticism and interpretation.

Historians--Greece--Biography.

Historians.

Greece--History--To 146 B.C--Historiography.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Timaeus of Tauromenium & Hellenistic Historiography

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

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

OCLC:

820719532