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 | | Meyer's vision was indeed grandiose in conception and treatment, and he disdained details (for which Wilamowitz censured him). |
 | | Meyer's ultimate pessimism was based on his view of "decline" from "capitalism" in antiquity, and this passed on to Spengler and Toynbee, and among ancient historians notably to Michael Rostovtzeff, and, to some extent, to William Linn Westermann, who was a pupil of Meyer and whom he venerated. |
 | | And, unlike Meyer, in these masterworks he is a master of precision in detail, scintillating in his brilliant, patient analyses of sources in the footnotes, with all the evidence laid out, literary, epigraphical, numismatic, and eventually also archaeological and papyrological. |
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