Ephorus of Cyme and Greek historiography / Giovanni Parmeggiani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parmeggiani, Giovanni, author.

Standardized Title:

Eforo di Cuma. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Ephorus.

Ephorus Die Fragmente der Historiker.

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

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 441 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Ephorus of Cyme, who lived in the fourth century BC, is one of the most important historians of antiquity whose work has not survived and, according to Polybius, was the first to have written a universal history. His lost Histories are known from numerous 'fragments', that is, quotations by later authors such as Polybius, Diodorus, Strabo and Plutarch, among others. Through a study of these 'fragments' within their broader context, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the methodology of Ephorus and both the contents and the purpose of his work. By changing our perspective on a major Greek historian between Thucydides and Polybius, this book fills a significant gap in the field, and sets the basis for a new conception of the history of ancient Greek historiography and the Greek intellectual development in general.

Contents:

Questions and Answers

Ephorus' "Histories" : The Method

Ephorus' " Histories" : The Contents

Ephorus the Universal Historian.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Dec 2023).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108923484 (ebook)

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