Talk:Ephorus

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"His style was high-flown and artificial, as was natural considering his early training..."

This quote is from the third paragraph. I point this out both from curiousity and from skepticism. Early training leads to a high-flown and artificial style? Could someone explicate this for me?--Heyitspeter 04:59, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge[edit]

The merge is obviously appropriate (they are articles on the same person, and this one has been around for five years, whereas someone redundantly created Ephoros just last month). It should be done with some care, since the new article is not without value (e.g. ancient biographical reports, specific references to ancient texts). In the combined article, "His surviving writings all show a certain lack of passion, in spite of his keen interest in matters of style, and of political partisanship" should go (as POV), with emphasis instead on simply reporting what ancient critics said (it's probably worth adding Cicero "as Isocrates said of Ephorus and Theopompus, the one wants the rein, the other the spur"). Wareh 16:49, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I second the motion.Dave (talk) 17:51, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Damnit, I completely forgot about this. I actually created that other article under Ephoros. I hadn't looked for an entry under the latinised spelling first (could have saved myself some trouble there). Why are all those poor dead Greeks mutilated into Latinity anyway? (sniff) I'm perfectly okay with merging the two articles, as long as none of the information is lost. As I've been working on other things lately, I would be glad if somebody else would give it a try with the merger. Trigaranus (talk) 02:05, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Completed the merge, and I think the end became quite good. Rsazevedo ^msg 22:49, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

continuous narrative[edit]

This seems wrong, or, at least, misleading:

The excerpts of their writings in Diodorus constitute the only continuous narrative on the history of Greece between 480-340 BC.

Now, certainly these excerpts constitute the only continuous narrative between 362 and 340. The 479-435 period could probably also be counted, since Thucydides's account of these years is fairly minimal. But surely 435-411 has a continuous narrative from Thucydides, and 411-362 has one from Xenophon? john k (talk) 05:05, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]