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Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with dust-jacket. Very good/fine condition. No notes or highlights. Minimal shelf-wear. Used - Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good +; Plastic cover pasted down to dust jacket; text is clean and unmarked and book is in excellent condition.

8vo. XVII, 318 S. Mit Tab. Originaler Verlagsleinen. (St.a.Tbrückseite, Schnitt abgestrichen, Rückenschildchen). (McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas). In englischer Sprache.

1st. Octavo; xvii, 318 pages. Near Fine copy in Fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1. Cloth, no dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. Theopompus was primarily known in antiquity for his historical works, which included an Epitome of Herodotus; Hellenica, a twelve-volume history of Greece; and the fifty-eight volume Philippica, which focused mainly on the career of Philip II of Macedon. All of Theopompus' works were lost by late antiquity except fifty-three volumes of the Philippica, which survived into Byzantine times only to disappear by perhaps the tenth century. Before these works were lost, geographers, lexicographers, biographers, collectors of anecdotes, and later historians all quoted Theopompus in their writings and many critics of historical style commented on Theopompus' work. Concentrating on the Hellenica and the Philippica, Shrimpton studies the fragments and testimonies to reveal what can be gleaned about the scope and content of Theopompus' two major works. He deals systematically with the problems of interpretation and makes clear the methodological background of his reconstructions and evaluations, furnishing the basis for further methodological debate. Theopompus' moral and political views are discussed, as are his treatment of two of the most important figures of the middle of the fourth century BC, Philip and Demosthenes. In addition, Shrimpton provides a comprehensive index of the proper names found in the fragments and reassesses the authorship of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, suggesting that it is most plausibly identified with Cratippus.…

Hardcover. 1. Dec. cloth, no dj. Minor shelf-wear, clean internals. Theopompus was primarily known in antiquity for his historical works, which included an Epitome of Herodotus; Hellenica, a twelve-volume history of Greece; and the fifty-eight volume Philippica, which focused mainly on the career of Philip II of Macedon. All of Theopompus' works were lost by late antiquity except fifty-three volumes of the Philippica, which survived into Byzantine times only to disappear by perhaps the tenth century. Before these works were lost, geographers, lexicographers, biographers, collectors of anecdotes, and later historians all quoted Theopompus in their writings and many critics of historical style commented on Theopompus' work. Concentrating on the Hellenica and the Philippica, Shrimpton studies the fragments and testimonies to reveal what can be gleaned about the scope and content of Theopompus' two major works. He deals systematically with the problems of interpretation and makes clear the methodological background of his reconstructions and evaluations, furnishing the basis for further methodological debate. Theopompus' moral and political views are discussed, as are his treatment of two of the most important figures of the middle of the fourth century BC, Philip and Demosthenes. In addition, Shrimpton provides a comprehensive index of the proper names found in the fragments and reassesses the authorship of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, suggesting that it is most plausibly identified with Cratippus.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo, grey cloth with dust jacket, xviii, 318. The spine is slightly faded and worn at the top, and there is the previous owner's name printed in small lettering on the first front end paper, otherwise a very good copy, with clean pages and tight binding. A study of the effects of memory and mnemonics on early Greek historical writing.…

Cloth with dustjacket. Condition: Gut. XVII, 318 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag etwas berieben, sonst guter Zustand / dust jacket a little rubbed, otherwise good condition. - In this insightful look at classical historiography, Gordon Shrimpton assesses the early Greek historians - Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus - in light of their own views of history and the views of the ancient theorists, establishing the ancient approaches to historical verification and assessing how they differ from contemporary investigative procedures. He argues that the ancient historians saw memories about public events as public possessions: they recorded public knowledge and were judged for their style. Ancient historians regarded travel, through which they came into contact with relevant regional traditions, as the best way to acquire and transmit knowledge about the past with due regard to truth. In the seventeenth century, however, historical narratives came to be viewed as the property of an individual investigator and historical knowledge became a commodity to be bought and sold through publication. Shrimptons study is a major reassessment of the role of group dynamics and individualism in the establishment of authority in ancient historical writing. Contents Lists, Tables, Figures, and Graphs Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 Rhetoric, Reason, Science, and Memory 2 Verification, Objectivity, and Interaction: Appreciating the Gulf between Ancient and Contemporary Historical Writing Appendix 1: Herodotus Source Citations / with K. M. Gillis Appendix 2: To me mythodes- Narrative Subdivisions in Thucydides Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780773510210 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 653.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. 014955; CIVILIZATION CLASSICAL GREECE 146 B.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 014048; CIVILIZATION CLASSICAL GREECE 146 B.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. xviii, 346 p. w/ appendices, endnotes, bibliography, and indexes of proper names in fragments, citations of the Testimonia, and general topics. A detailed study of Theopompus of Chios (380-318 bce) and a guide ot the fragments of his work, with a translation of the Jacoby's Testimona and fragments in appendix B. Theopompus was a less well known pro-aristocratic Hellenistic historian & rhetorician whose works we have only in fragments. He died in Egypt after being expelld from Athens at the death of Alexander. his best known works of the Hellenica (a history of Greece) and his study of Philip II called the Philipica.…