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 | | Of the second category (chapters 2 and 3) five broad themes of historiography in the Bibliotheke are investigated: character assessments, the rise and fall of empires, the power of fortune, explanations of human progress, and the idea of universalism. |
 | | Not only is the language that of the rest of the Bibliotheke, but many of the ideas, and indeed even the very phrases used to express them, occur elsewhere in the work. |
 | | By contrast, study of D. over an extended period of time leads me to endorse the "traditional" view of D. The peculiarities of the Bibliotheke are best explained as the result of the fitful methods of a careless epitomizer with a moralizing bent, who produced, working in considerable haste, a historical compilation. |
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