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Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography
2023Ephorus 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,
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Continuity in Modern Greek Historiography
Abstract Although the memory of classical Greece was never truly extinguished, its perpetuation was largely in the hands of a small group of Byzantine scholars throughout the Middle Ages. It was only toward the end of the eighteenth century that some Greek intellectuals began to subscribe to a belief in what might be termed ...openaire +1 more source
GREEK LOCAL HISTORIOGRAPHY AND ITS AUDIENCES
The Classical Quarterly, 2017In the ninth book of his Ἀτθίς the Athenian historian and religious expert Philochorus related an omen about which he had himself been consulted in the late fourth centuryb.c.e.(FGrHist328 F 67).When this year was done and the next was beginning, there occurred on the Acropolis the following prodigy: a female dog, having entered the temple of Athena ...
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2007
General survey about Western Greek Historiography (Hippys, Antiochus, Philistus, Timaeus), and its relevance in Ancient Greek culture. A survey on Western Greek Historiography from the beginnings to Diodorus of Siciliy (V-I Cent.B.C.). The author outilnes the topics of 'Western Historians' in Classical Tradition.
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General survey about Western Greek Historiography (Hippys, Antiochus, Philistus, Timaeus), and its relevance in Ancient Greek culture. A survey on Western Greek Historiography from the beginnings to Diodorus of Siciliy (V-I Cent.B.C.). The author outilnes the topics of 'Western Historians' in Classical Tradition.
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