"Through a careful study of the surviving fragmentary evidence, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the lost Histories of the fourth-century B.C. Greek historian Ephorus of Cyme, the first, according to Polybius, to have written a universal history"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Questions and answers; 2. Ephorus' Histories: the method; 3. Ephorus' Histories: the contents; 4. Ephorus the universal historian; Conclusions; Appendix: Ephorus and the Hellenika Oxyrhynchia.