E-book
Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic historiography
Record details
- ISBN: 9781283870405
- ISBN: 9781107000971
- ISBN: 1283870401
- ISBN: 1107000971
- ISBN: 9781139624824
- ISBN: 9780511733246
- ISBN: 1139624822
- ISBN: 0511733240
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
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Computer data. - Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:april.19 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Biography. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books. History |
