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  • Chapter 4 - Ephorus the Universal Historian

  • Giovanni Parmeggiani, Università degli Studi di Trieste
  • Book:
    Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography
    Published online:
    30 November 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023, pp 332-359

  • Summary

    In light of the conclusions reached in the previous chapters and the knowledge gained through the fragments, the author addresses the issue of Ephorus’ universality. He tries to understand which reasons led Polybius to mention Ephorus as his only predecessor; and he sets Ephorus’ universality in the context of the historiographical thought of the fourth century BC, to better appreciate its novelty.

  • Chapter 2 - Ephorus’ Histories: The Method

  • Giovanni Parmeggiani, Università degli Studi di Trieste
  • Book:
    Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography
    Published online:
    30 November 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023, pp 61-150

  • Summary

    The author detects which principles Ephorus stated in his Histories for research, and how he practised his inquiry. This enables the author to see whether Ephorus’ practice of inquiry was in line with the principles he stated or not, and also to draw an overall balanced evaluation of Ephorus’ historiographical method and the nature of his historical discourse.

  • Chapter 1 - Questions and Answers

  • Giovanni Parmeggiani, Università degli Studi di Trieste
  • Book:
    Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography
    Published online:
    30 November 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023, pp 10-60

  • Summary

    The author checks the firmness of the foundations of the negative appraisal of the historian Ephorus. Topics include Ephorus’ Isocratean apprenticeship, the concept of rhetorical historiography, Ephorus and Diodorus, ancient judgements questioning Ephorus’ reliability as a historian, Ephorus’ ‘Cymocentrism’.

Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography
  • Giovanni Parmeggiani
  • Published online:
    30 November 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023
  • Ephorus of Cyme, who lived in the fourth century BC, is one of the most important historians of antiquity whose work has not survived and, according to Polybius, was the first to have written a universal history. His lost Histories are known from numerous 'fragments', that is, quotations by later authors such as Polybius, Diodorus, Strabo and Plutarch, among others. Through a study of these 'fragments' within their broader context, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the methodology of Ephorus and both the contents and the purpose of his work. By changing our perspective on a major Greek historian between Thucydides and Polybius, this book fills a significant gap in the field, and sets the basis for a new conception of the history of ancient Greek historiography and the Greek intellectual development in general.