Leseprobe
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
Diodorus Siculus and the First Century
Kenneth S. Sacks
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
Sachbuch / Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike
Beschreibung
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.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Kundenbewertungen
Aurelius Victor, Tiberius Gracchus, Hecataeus of Abdera, Juvenal, Roman Government, Hellenistic period, Imperial cult (ancient Rome), Pelopidas, Rome Rule, Explanation, Verres, Hieronymus, Philodemus, Theodorus of Gadara, Vitruvius, Ammianus Marcellinus, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Hieronymus of Cardia, First Punic War, Divi filius, Polybius, Roman consul, Lucretius, Mithridates VI of Pontus, Greek mythology, Hiero (Xenophon), Eunus, Artemidorus, Thucydides, Nicias, The Roman Revolution, Arrian, Cyropaedia, Decimus (praenomen), First Triumvirate, Isocrates, Pomerium, Second Triumvirate, Ephorus, Roman historiography, Aelius Gallus, Herodotus, Ptolemaic Kingdom, Narrative, Lactantius, Sicilia (Roman province), Silenus, Metrodorus of Scepsis, Numantia, Caecilius of Calacte, Gaius Gracchus, Diodorus Siculus, Principate, Judea (Roman province), Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Mamertines, Praetor, Caesar and Pompey, Strabo, Cassius Dio, Posidonius, Titus Labienus, Dionysus, Sextus Pompey, Democritus, Auctoritas, Pliny the Elder, Euhemerus, Second Punic War, Megasthenes