Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography - Hardcover

Baron, Christopher A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107000971 ISBN 13: 9781107000971

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Timaeus of Tauromenium (350-260 BC) wrote the authoritative account of the Greeks in the Western Mediterranean. Like almost all the Hellenistic historians, his work survives only in fragments. Beyond an up-to-date treatment of this important author, this book 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 examination of Timaeus also conveys a broader impression of the major lines of Hellenistic historiography.

About this title

Book Description:

This 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.

About the Author:

Christopher A. Baron is an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where he teaches the history of Ancient Greece, the age of Alexander, Classical historiography, and democracy and the Greeks, as well as reading courses in Greek prose authors.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107000971
• ISBN 13: 9781107000971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316