Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

1991

Publication Title

Classical Philology

Volume

86

Issue

4

Pages

357-364

Publisher Name

The University of Chicago Press

Abstract

Chronology is a science of minute questions and seemingly picayune distinctions, compared to the grander concerns of history, literature, or the personality of an ancient author. But as Roques emphasizes, interpretive problems should be addressed within a solid objective framework, such as chronology establishes (pp. 6, 235). This volume presents studies that R. carried out preliminary to his Syne'sios de Cyrene et la Cyrenaique du Bas-Empire (Paris, 1987). In fact Synesius' writings are not limited in significance to himself and Cyrenaica: they illuminate literary, philosophical, religious, political, and historical issues of the later Roman Empire as a whole. R.'s thorough, detailed study should bear upon any research that makes use of them. Unfortunately, flaws both in his primary assumptions and in his method of proceeding from them drastically limit the usefulness of his conclusions.

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Author Posting © 1991, University of Chicago Press. This article is posted here by permission of University of Chicago Press for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in Classical Philology, Volume 86, Number 4, 1991, http://www.jstor.org/stable/270097

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