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Most Politick Historiographer - Hermann Strasburger: Die Wesensbestimmung der Geschichte durch die antike Geschichtsschreibung. (Sitz. d. Wiss. Gesellschaft a. d. Universität Frankfurt, v. 3.) Pp. 58. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1966. Paper, DM. 8.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Oswyn Murray
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Warburg Institute, London

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page 219 note 1 On the social limitations of Tacitus, there is much of interest in E. Auerbach, Mimesis c. 2.

page 220 note 1 Against the doubts of Walbank, F. W., Bull. Inst. Class. Studies, Univ. London, ii (1955), 4ff.;Google ScholarHist, ix (1960), 216 ff.

page 220 note 2 But not quite as strange as O. Immisch conceived; he thought that the work on the Red Sea began with an introduction on the life and teaching of Pythagoras! The reader might have been warned that the main contention of his work, cited p. 50, n. 3, has been refuted: cf. esp. Reinhardt, K., R.E. xxii. 1 (1953). 763 ff.;Google Scholar W. Theiler, Parusia, Festschrift J. Hirschberger (1965), 209 ff. W. Burkert (Gnomon xxxix [1967], 549, n. 1.) has withdrawn his earlier support for Immisch (Weisheit und Wissenschaft[1962], 47, n.2b.) The thesis of D. Woelk, cited p. 50, n. 2, not yet available to me.

page 220 note 3 Cf. the indications in Jacoby, F., R.E. Suppl. ii (1913), 504515;Google ScholarF.G.H. 264 Comm. p. 77; K. Trüdinger, Studien z. Geschichte der griechisch-römischen Ethnographie, Diss. Basel, 1918.

page 220 note 4 A. D. Momigliano, Studies in Historiography, 137 ff.

page 220 note 5 It is very significant that Strasburger does not mention Timaeus: cf. Momigliano, Riv. Stor. It. lxxi (1959), 529 ff., = Terzo Contributo 23 ff.

page 220 note 6 Klio ix (1909), 80 ff. = Abhandlungcn z. griechische Geschichtsschreibung, 16 ff.

page 221 note 1 On the selectiveness of which cf. Walbank, , J.R.S. lii (1962), 1 ff.Google Scholar