For the rest we depend on excerpts and the epitomes of Zonaras and Xiphilinus. |
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Suetonian biography apart, historiography thereafter degenerated into handbooks and epitomes until Ammianus Marcellinus appeared. |
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Shridhara composed Ganitasara and Ganitapanchavimashi as epitomes of a larger work, which may or may not have been Patiganita. |
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They brought a dash of riotous assembly to a ceremony whose other big winners were those epitomes of middle-class good taste, James Blunt and Coldplay. |
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This is because characters whose feelings are supposed to be at stake are blunted, dumbed-down caricatures of notional human beings, rather than sharply etched epitomes of human behavior. |
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Only little survives of the epitomes, through citations in the work Stephanus of Byzantium, but in the case of Menippus there is also some manuscript material. |
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