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Old 05-15-2008, 02:27 PM   #6
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Shamefully, I didn't realize how big he was.

He is interesting but people have commented I won't like his Greek, why?
He doesn't get a lot of publicity because the Hellenistic age is still pretty overlooked in Greek history, and his work is mostly fragmentary. There's a decent penguin edition of the surviving portions and excerpts.

I haven't read him very much in Greek, though. Maybe the Greek is hard because he was Arcadian (not Attic), or because he translates so many Latin terms into Greek.
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