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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 November 2023
      14 December 2023
      ISBN:
      9781108923484
      9781108831185
      9781108926423
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108923484
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.851kg, 450 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 450 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies
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    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.

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    ‘A careful study of the fragments and their contexts … Parmeggiani has worked mightily to rehabilitate his author …’

    Craige Champion Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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