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-379–-319 · Greek historian and rhetorician (c.380–c.315 BC)
Also known as: Theopompos, Theopomp, Theopompos von Chios, Theopompus of Chios, Феопомп, ثيوبمبوس
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He was a fellow Isocratean historian who wrote a rhetorical universal history of the Greek world. (AI reason)
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He wove ethnographic marvels and digressions into his historical narrative, much as Theopompus did in Marvels. (AI reason)
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His universal history draws on fourth-century historians and narrates the rise of Philip II. (AI reason)
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Isocrates-435–-337ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetHis rhetorical prose and Panhellenic political themes shaped Theopompus's style. (AI reason)
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