Mario Baumann y Vasileios Liotsakis (eds.), Digressions in Classical Historiography (Trends in Classics 150), Boston & Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 356 páginas.
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REVIEW TO: Mario Baumann y Vasileios Liotsakis (eds.), Digressions in Classical Historiography (Trends in Classics 150), Boston & Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 356 páginas.
Digression has traditionally been considered a marginal element in the study of ancient historiography, conceived more as a secondary ornament than a structural resource.
The edited volume Digressions in Classical Historiography, edited by Mario Baumann and Vasileios Liotsakis, aims to overturn this common perception. The book, the result of a digital conference held in September 2020 and published in 2024 in the prestigious Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes series by De Gruyter, constitutes the first diachronic study of digression in Greco-Roman historiography, spanning from Herodotus (5th century BC) to Ammianus Marcellinus (4th century AD).
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