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Sacks Diodorus Siculus and the First Century


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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6128-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

ISBN: 978-1-4008-6128-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
 Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

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 Sacks explores the complexity of his work to reveal a historian with a distinct point of view indicative of his times.

Sacks focuses on three areas of Diodorus's history writing: methods of organization and style, broad historical and philosophical themes, and political sentiments. Throughout, Diodorus introduced his own ideas or refashioned those found in his sources. In particular, his negative reaction to Roman imperial rule helps to illuminate the obscure tradition of opposition historiography and to explain the shape and structure of the Bibliotheke. Viewed as a unified work reflecting the intellectual and political beliefs of the late Hellenistic period, the Bibliotheke will become an important source for interpreting first-century moral, political, and intellectual values.

Originally published in 1990.

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Sacks, Kenneth S.

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Weitere Infos & Material

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix
ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xi
INTRODUCTION: The Argument, pg. 3
CHAPTER ONE. Prooemia, pg. 9
CHAPTER TWO. Themes in Historical Causality, pg. 23
CHAPTER THREE. Culture's Progress, pg. 55
CHAPTER FOUR. Aspects of History Writing, pg. 83
CHAPTER FIVE. Diodorus on Rome, pg. 117
CHAPTER SIX. Diodorus in the World of Caesar and Octavian, pg. 160
CONCLUSIONS, pg. 204
APPENDIX ONE. Sicilian Enfranchisement, pg. 207
APPENDIX TWO. Posidonius on Italian Knights, pg. 211
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 213
INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES IN DIODORUS, pg. 231
INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES IN OTHER AUTHORS, pg. 236
INDEX OF SIGNIFICANT GREEK TERMS, pg. 239
GENERAL INDEX, pg. 240

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