Ephorus Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
...sometimes synchronically. Ephorus drew on diverse sources, at times using good judgement (he preferred the Oxyrhynchus historian to Xenophon ), at other times making unfortunate choices (he coloured Thucydides' (2) account with material from 4th‐cent. pamphleteers). Esp. interesting to Ephorus were migrations, the founding of cities, and family histories ( see genealogy ). The History was widely quoted in antiquity and was generally commended for its accuracy (except in military descriptions). In paraphrasing Ephorus, Diodorus supplies crucial...
Ephorus Quick reference
Kenneth S. Sacks
Who's Who in the Classical World
..., he was the first universal historian, combining a focus on Greek history with events in the barbarian east. Ephorus may have been the first historian to divide his work by books, and he provided each with a separate proem. Individual books were apparently devoted exclusively to a particular area (southern and central Greece, Macedonia, Sicily, Persia), but within each book events were sometimes retold episodically, sometimes synchronistically. Ephorus drew on a diversity of sources, historical and literary, at times using good judgement (he preferred the ...
Ephorus (405–330)(of Cyme) Reference library
Sacks Kenneth S.
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2 ed.)
...he was the first universal historian, combining a focus on Greek history with events in the barbarian east. Ephorus may have been the first historian to divide his work by books, and he provided each with a separate proem. Individual books were apparently devoted exclusively to a particular area (southern and central Greece, Macedonia, Sicily, Persia), but within each book events were sometimes retold episodically, sometimes synchronistically. Ephorus drew on a diversity of sources, historical and literary, at times using good judgement (he preferred the...
Ephorus (c.405–330 bc)(of Cyme) Reference library
Sacks Kenneth S.
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
...he was the first universal historian, combining a focus on Greek history with events in the barbarian east. Ephorus may have been the first historian to divide his work by books, and he provided each with a separate proem. Individual books were apparently devoted exclusively to a particular area (southern and central Greece, Macedonia, Sicily, Persia), but within each book events were sometimes retold episodically, sometimes synchronistically. Ephorus drew on a diversity of sources, historical and literary, at times using good judgement (he preferred the ...
E'phorus (c.405–330 bc) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)
... (of Cyme , c .405–330 bc ) One of the most influential Greek historians of the fourth century bc , the author of a history of the cities of Greece and Asia Minor in thirty books, and the first author known to have divided his work into books himself. Although the history no longer survives it was known to Polybius and used extensively by Strabo and Diodorus Siculus. It began with the ‘return of the Heracleidae ’ (i.e. the Dorian invasion c. 1100 bc ) and continued to the siege of Perinthus by Philip II of Macedon in 341 bc , including myths...
Ephorus
Cӯmē
Aristodemus
Common Peace
Oxyrhynchus, the historian from
Diyllus of Athens
Cyme
Asclepiades
Temenus of Argos
Philochorus
books, poetic
Nicolaus of Damascus
prooemium
paradoxography
