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Memnon's history encompassed an unknown number of books, but Photius had read the ninth through the sixteenth, and made a tolerably copious abstract of that portion. The first eight books he had not read, and he speaks of other books after the sixteenth. The ninth book begins with an account of the
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thinks the 2nd century AD likely. It is, of course, impossible to fix the date with any precision, as we do not know at all down to what time the entire work was carried. The style of Memnon, according to Photius, was clear and simple, and the words well chosen. The Excerpta of Photius, however,
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Memnon's history is valuable as a continuous account of nearly all the Hellenistic period, albeit a compressed one from a local vantage point. It is also valuable as the only reasonably complete example of the Greek historical genre of local history.
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at the beginning of the 1st century AD; in the judgment of Orelli, not later than the time of
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These Excerpta of Photius were first published separately, together with the remains of
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contain numerous examples of rare and poetical expressions, as well as a few which
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supposes that the work was written about the time of
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Heraclea Pontica
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