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Détails du catalogue
- Cote
- E 939 TARN
- Auteur
- William Woodthorpe Tarn
- Éditeur
- Oxford University Press
- Année de publication
- 1969
- ISBN
- 0198142757
- Format
- Livre relié
- Sujet
- Histoire et géographie
- Description
- 512 p.
- Notes
- Review: Antigonos' long life -- he was born around 319, became king of Makedon in 277, and died in 239 -- spanned much of the century, and he was certainly one of the preeminent political actors of those eventful times. Tarn saw writing Antigonos' life as a mechanism for lending structure to this sprawling time; under the guise of biography, Tarn produced a history of Greece and the Aegean in the third century, which in turn created a context for understanding Antigonos' life and for supporting the interpretations he advanced. While one could justly complain that for many dozens of pages at a time the subject of Tarn's book sinks from view in a complex analysis of Aitolian politics or a discussion of Ptolemaic objectives in the Aegean, Tarn not only always brings us back to his main interest, but also shows why his digressions are crucial to his understanding of Antigonos' actions and policies. Again, if one can sometimes complain that in this way Tarn confects a false confidence that we know what Gonatas did and why he did it even when, in fact, we don't, Tarn offers a structure within which one can argue against him. He holds back nothing that might be relevant.