The Hellenistic Poets as Historians.
This article explores the ways in which Hellenistic poets handled lived events of the human past, and it argues that they functioned as in some sense what we would recognize as historians. They used four main devices to do so, which are examined in turn: Hellenistic historical epics (a genre whose v...
| Published in: | Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 37; pp. 45 - 68 |
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Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
2018
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