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The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and historiography : new research perspectives /

"This book involves a new historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works as well as its role as a source of Diodorus' Bibliotheke. The traditional and common approach taken by those who studied the HO is pr...

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Main Author: Occhipinti, Egidia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Subjects:
Diodorus, > Siculus. > Bibliotheca historica.
Hellenica Oxyrhynchia.
History, Ancient > Historiography.
History, Ancient > Research.
Greece > History > To 146 B.C. > Historiography.
Greece > History > Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C. > Historiography.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789004325784
9004325786
9004325719
9789004325715
ISSN:0169-8958 ;
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The HO in the view of modern scholars
  • Part 1
  • The work and the reader
  • Spartan motivations : the HO and Xenophon
  • Diodorus, the HO and Xenophon : a reassessment
  • Part 2
  • The HO and Athenian Polypragmosyne
  • Terra Marique
  • Historiography and hegemony
  • Historical causation
  • "Moralism" in historiography
  • Appendix 1: A new supplement for lines 31-32 of the Theramenes Papyrus (P. Mich. 5982)
  • Appendix 2: History, oratory and their audiences
  • Appendix 3: Diodorus and Rome
  • Appendix 4: Translations
  • Index of names
  • Thematic index.

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