Ancient Library Bookshelf Seyffert, Dictionary of Classical Antiquities page 299 Scanned text contains errors. On this page: History HISTORY Mutlna, 14th April, 43 b.c., when he was consul. Of the three works, the Bettum Alexanilrlnum, Bellum Africum, and Bel-lum Hispdnlense, (See caesar.) History . (I) The composition of history , and indeed of all prose among the Greeks, originated with the lonians of Asia Minor, who also created the SpOs, the elegy , and iambic poetry. It was among them that, in the 6th century b.c., the History history HeUeMca ; in his Xenophon described the famous retreat of the Ten Thousand in a style as masterly as his generalship. In the Cyropaedla he gives a picture, idealized indeed, but not without foundation in fact, of the history of Cyrus. His contemporary ctesias history of the Persian empire. At the same time philistus of Syracuse, an imitator of Thucydides, compiled the history of Sicily from the earliest times theopompus of Chios' and EpHGRtrs of Cyme, both disciples of the rhetorician Isocrates. The chief work of Theopompus was a history of Philip of Macedon, from his accession to his death. Ephorus, in a great work embracing the whole course of events from the invasion of the Peloponnesus by the Heraclidse, to 345 b.c., was the first writer who attempted a universal | |
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