Compilation or Tradition?: Some Thoughts on the Methods of Historians and Other Scholars in Antiquity

Historiographical compilations are usually seen as a typical late antique and mediaeval phenomenon. This paper argues that the compilatory method was already wide-spread in earlier centuries and indeed was the normal procedure for ancient authors dealing with the non-contemporary past, as can been s...

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Subtitles:Techniques of compilation in late ancient and medieval historiography
Main Author: Meeus, Alexander (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brepols [2017]
In: Sacris erudiri
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Pages: 395-413
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Compilation / Historiography / Greece (Antiquity)
RelBib Classification:TA History
TB Antiquity
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