Resumen de Le epitomi e la trasmissione della storiografia greca
The paper deals with the historical Greek epitomes from the 4th century BC to the end of the ancient world. The decline of this literary typology in the Greek world, after the end of the Roman Republic, is traced back to a number of concomitant factors: the lower artistic quality, in the eyes of the scholars of imperial age, of the contemporary historical writings compared to those of the past; the shift towards the West of the political and cultural structures caused by the growth of Rome; the progressive impoverishment of the historiographical summaries, which forced the scholars of the Late Empire to abandon the form of the epitome to pour what remained of the ancient historical knowledge into encyclopedic lexicons and chronographic repertoires.
