Digressions in Classical Historiography

Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century BC...

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Autores principales: Mario Baumann, Vasileios Liotsakis
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Publicado: De Gruyter 2024
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