Moral history from herodotus to diodorus siculus. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lisa Irene Hau.
• Authors: Hau, Lisa Irene
• Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I. Hellenistic Historiography; Chapter 1. Polybius; Chapter 2. Diodorus Siculus; Chapter 3. Fragmentary Hellenistic Historiography; Introduction; Timaeus of Tauromenium (FGrH 566) ; Duris of Samos (FGrH 76); Phylarchus (FGrH 81); Agatharchides of Cnidus (FGrH 86); Posidonius of Apamea (FGrH 87); Hieronymus of Cardia (FGrH 154); Conclusion; Part II. Classical Historiography; Introduction; Chapter 4. Herodotus; Chapter 5. Thucydides; Chapter 6. Xenophon Hellenica; Chapter 7. Fragments of Classical Historiographers; The Oxyrhynchus Historian; Ephorus of Cyme (FGrH 70); Theopompus of Chios (FGrH 115) Conclusion: from macro and minimalist moralising to explicit paradeigmata; Conclusion; Bibliography; Text editions; Scholarly literature. .
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 170.938; Ethics -- Greece; Moral exhortation -- Greece
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474411097; 9781474411080
• Related ISBNs: 9781474411073
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