Tempo e antihistoire
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Time and antihistoire
This article analyses the succession of historians in the five sections of the Excerpta Constntiniana that have come down to us, not connecting it to categories or historiographical genres, but to the organisation of the work of this συλλογή.
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