Historiography at the end of the Republic

provincial perspectives on Roman rule

This study of six historians from the edges of the Roman world at the end of the Republic - the author of "I Maccabees", "Posidonius", "Diodorus Siculus", "Pompeius Trogus", "Nicolaus of Damascus", and "Memnon of Heraclea" - combines discussion of their biographical details, the intellectual and elite ...