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Epitomes of a kind are still produced today when dealing with a corpus of literature, especially classical works often considered dense, unwieldy and unlikely to be read by the average person, to make them more accessible: some are more along the lines of abridgments, such as many which have been
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worlds survive now only "in epitome," referring to the practice of some later authors (epitomators) who wrote distilled versions of larger works now lost. Some writers attempted to convey the stance and spirit of the original, while others added further details or anecdotes regarding the general
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Documents surviving in epitome differ from those surviving only as fragments quoted in later works and those used as unacknowledged sources by later scholars, as they can stand as discrete documents but refracted through the views of another author.
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differs from an epitome in that an abridgment is made of selected quotations of a larger work; no new writing is composed, as opposed to the epitome, which is an original summation of a work, at least in part.
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meaning "to cut short") is a summary or miniature form, or an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a
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Some are of the same type as the ancient epitome, such as various epitomes of the
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subject. As with all secondary historical sources, a different
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for embodiment. Epitomacy represents "to the degree of." An
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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/ɪˈpɪtəm/
Greek
synonym
abridgment
Ancient Greek
Roman
bias
Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Summa Theologiae
Thomas Aquinas
theology
Aristotelian
philosophy
Immanuel Kant
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Søren Kierkegaard

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