Diodorus Siculus and the First Century / / Kenneth S. Sacks.
Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus himself has been commonly seen as a "mere copyist" of earlier historical traditions, Kenneth...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION: The Argument
- CHAPTER ONE. Prooemia
- CHAPTER TWO. Themes in Historical Causality
- CHAPTER THREE. Culture's Progress
- CHAPTER FOUR. Aspects of History Writing
- CHAPTER FIVE. Diodorus on Rome
- CHAPTER SIX. Diodorus in the World of Caesar and Octavian
- CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIX ONE. Sicilian Enfranchisement
- APPENDIX TWO. Posidonius on Italian Knights
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES IN DIODORUS
- INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES IN OTHER AUTHORS
- INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT GREEK TERMS
- GENERAL INDEX