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This chapter owes its chimerical shape to practical considerations, including limitations of space and overlap with other Companions, and makes a virtue out of necessity by using it to discuss some wider issues as a background to the chapter that follow, all but the last dealing primarily with prose texts. It discusses Hellenistic historiography, rhetoric, and science in order and without any pretension to comprehensiveness. Most brief treatments of Hellenistic historiography have recourse to Polybius' Histories as a haven in the sea of murky evidence that stretches from Xenophon in the fourth century BCE to Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Diodorus Siculus in the first. Hellenistic rhetoric was concerned with describing in increasing detail all the facets of planning, writing, memorizing, and delivering a speech. Finally the chapter takes the form of the most annoying of rhetorical figures, the praeteritio, its length being in inverse proportion to the number of subjects.
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