
handle: 2108/262289
L’articolo tratta delle epitomi storiche greche dal IV secolo a.C. alla fine del mondo antico. L’impoverirsi di questa tipologia letteraria in ambito greco, dopo la fine della Repubblica, è ricondotto a una serie di fattori concomitanti: la minore qualità artistica, agli occhi degli eruditi di età imperiale, degli scritti storici contemporanei rispetto a quelli del passato; lo spostamento verso occidente degli assetti politici e culturali causato dall’affermazione di Roma; il progressivo impoverirsi dei sunti storiografici, che costrinse gli studiosi del tardo impero ad abbandonare la forma dell’epitome per riversare quanto restava dell’antico sapere nei lessici enciclopedici e nei repertori cronografici.
The article discusses the Greek historical epitomes from the 4th century BC to the end of the ancient world. The impoverishment of this literary typology in the Greek sphere, after the end of the Roman Republic, is traced to a number of concomitant factors: the lower artistic quality, in the eyes of scholars of the imperial age, of contemporary historical writings compared to those of the past; the westward shift of political and cultural power caused by the rise of Rome; the progressive impoverishment of historiographical summaries, which forced late empire scholars to abandon the form of the epitome to pour what remained of ancient knowledge into encyclopedic lexica and chronographic repertories.
Settore L-ANT/02 - STORIA GRECA
Settore L-ANT/02 - STORIA GRECA
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