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Timaeus of Tauromenium (350-260 BC) wrote the authoritative work on
the Greeks in the Western Mediterranean and was important through
his research into chronology and his influence on Roman
historiography. Like almost all the Hellenistic historians,
however, his work survives only in fragments. This book provides an
up-to-date study of his work and shows that both the nature of the
evidence and modern assumptions about historical writing in the
Hellenistic period have skewed our treatment and judgement of lost
historians. For Timaeus, much of our evidence is preserved in the
polemical context of Polybius' Book 12. When we move outside that
framework and examine the fragments of Timaeus in their proper
context, we gain a greater appreciation for his method and his
achievement, including his use of polemical invective and his
composition of speeches. This has important implications for our
broader understanding of the major lines of Hellenistic
historiography.
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