1st Edition
Diodorus' Library of History and its Author Rethinking Historiographical Theory and Practice
By Andrzej Dudziński
Copyright 2027
192 Pages
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Routledge
The book offers a reassessment of Diodorus Siculus' historiographical principles and their application in the Bibliotheke Historike , approached through systematic analysis of the text rather than assumptions about its author as a passive compiler.
Readers will gain a rigorous re-evaluation of how Diodorus conceived, organised and executed his universal history, including its genre, programme,... Read more
Introduction; 1. Bibliotheke Historike – the idea and its realization; 2. Polemics and criticism; 3. Speeches; 4. Oikonomia and readability; 5. Understanding the author through his project; 6. Diodorus as the author of the Bibliotheke; Conclusions.
Biography
Andrzej Dudziński is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland.
