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Justin: Epitome of The Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus Volume I: Books 11-12: Alexander the Great

by: Yardley, J.C.

Price: 84,00 EURO

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Category: Greek History
Code: 28550
ISBN-13: 9780198149088 / 978-0-19-814908-8
ISBN-10: 0198149085 / 0-19-814908-5
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1997
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Paper
Pages: 384
Book Condition: New
Comments: Translated from Latin by John C. Yardley and With a Commentary by Waldemar Heckel / Clarendon Ancient History Series

Justin: Epitome of The Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus
Volume I: Books 11-12: Alexander the Great
Justin
Translated from Latin by John C. Yardley and With a Commentary by Waldemar Heckel
Clarendon Press

Clarendon Ancient History Series
This volume presents the first authoritative English translation and scholarly commentary on a little known but important ancient historical ...

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Pompeius Trogus, a Romanized Gaul living in the age of Augustus, wrote a forty four-book universal history (The Philippic History) of the non-Roman, Mediterranean world. This work was later abbreviated by a certain M. Junianus Justinus, better know as Justin. This volume presents the first modern English translation and scholarly commentary on Books 11-12 of Justin's so-called "Epitome" of the history.

These books constitute one of the five major sources for the history of Alexander the Great and belong to the so-called "Vulgate" tradition, which in the opinion of many scholars derives ultimately from the lost historian Clearchus of Alexandria. The original work of Pompeius Trogus appears to have had stylistic and historical influences on the better know History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus.

In this volume the authors tease out and differentiate as far as possible the relative contributions of the historian Trogus and the "epitomator", Justin. The commentary examines the relationship of Justin-Trogus to both the extant sources and the works of the lost Alexander historians, and a serous attempt is made to explain errors or deviations from well-known sources in terms of the methods of historian and "epitomator" before resorting to the expedient of textual emendation. A second volume, covering books 13-15, is forthcoming.

 
 
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Justin: Epitome of The Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus Volume I: Books 11-12: Alexander the Great

by: Yardley, J.C.

  • ISBN-13: 9780198149088 / 978-0-19-814908-8
  • ISBN-03: 0198149085 / 0-19-814908-5
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997

Price: 84,00 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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