Teopompo e la Sicilia

Abstract

Compared with the predecessors, Theopompus appears to have developed a new way of thinking of Greek history. For the historical material of the Philippica appears moulded through three distinct logoi: Greece, Persia and the West (and Sicily); this seems to reflect an entirely new historical conception, a three-part vision of the oecumene, virtually unknown to the previous historians. The 'model' of The Histories of Herodotus seems to be on the basis of Theopompus’ narrative technique. In fact, when the historian moves away from the narrative on Philip – that proceeds year by year from 360 to 337 B.C. –, there are narrative sections of different length which are not relevant to history of Macedonia, and include digressions in the same manner of Herodotus.