Herodotus, the Historian
Author | : Kenneth H. Waters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Historians |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kenneth H. Waters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Historians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Duane W. Roller |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857739239 |
The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been produced. There has been much archaeological research, especially at the perimeters of the Greek world, and a more accurate understanding of ancient geography and geographers has emerged. The topic is therefore overdue a fresh and sustained treatment. In offering precisely that, Duane Roller explores important topics like knowledge of the world in the Bronze Age and Archaic periods; Greek expansion into the Black Sea and the West; the Pythagorean concept of the earth as a globe; the invention of geography as a discipline by Eratosthenes; Polybios the explorer; Strabo's famous Geographica; the travels of Alexander the Great; Roman geography; Ptolemy and late antiquity; and the cultural reawakening of antique geographical knowledge in the Renaissance, including Columbus' use of ancient sources.
Author | : Robert Malcolm Errington |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520063198 |
In this single-volume history, R. Malcolm Errington provides a modern account of the political and social framework of ancient Macedon. He places particular emphasis on the structure of the Macedonian state and its functioning in different stages of historical development from the sixth to the second century B.C. Errington's main emphasis is not on the biographies of the great kings but rather on the flexible political interplay between king, nobility, and people; on the growth of cities and their political function within the state; and on the development of the army as a motor of military, social, and politicalchange.
Author | : Ole Thomsen |
Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788772896625 |
Classica et Mediaevalia - Volume 51
Author | : Anthony Kaldellis |
Publisher | : Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Bizans İmparatorluğu |
ISBN | : 9780884024019 |
In this companion to the two-volume Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library translation of The Histories by Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Anthony Kaldellis explores the ethnic dynamics that undergird the Histories, which recount the rise of the Ottoman empire and the decline of the Byzantine empire, all in the context of expanding western power.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : College student newspapers and periodicals |
ISBN | : |
Vols. 1-26 include a supplement: The University pulpit, vols. [1]-26, no. 1-661, which has separate pagination but is indexed in the main vol.
Author | : Jeanne Bendick |
Publisher | : Bethlehem Books |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1932350209 |
Best-selling author Jeanne Bendick takes us for another informative—and amusing—journey into places and events of long ago. Herodotus and the Road to History, written in the first person, details the investigative journeys of Herodotus—a contemporary of the Old Testament prophet Malachi—as he takes ship from Greece and voyages to the limits of his own ancient world. His persistence, amidst disbelief and ridicule, in the self-appointed task of recording his discoveries as “histories” (the Greek word meaning “inquiry”), means that today we can still follow his expeditions into the wonder and mystery of Syria, Persia, Egypt and the “barbaric” north. Jeanne Bendick's lucid text, humorous illustrations and helpful maps entertain and instruct as they open the way for readers young and old to once again join Herodotus . . . on the road to history.
Author | : Herodotus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Herodotus |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2021-04-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Herodotus, the great Greek historian, wrote this famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians in a delightful style. Herodotus portrays the dispute as one between the forces of slavery on the one hand and freedom on the other. This work covers the rise of the Persian influence and a history of the Persian empire, a description and history of Egypt, and a long digression on the landscape and traditions of Scythia. Because of the comprehensiveness of this work, it was considered the founding work of history in Western literature. A must-have for history enthusiasts.
Author | : Brian M. Lavelle |
Publisher | : Franz Steiner Verlag |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783515063180 |
Fifth century Athenians were expecially hostile to tyrants and tyranny as a result of Peisistratid treachery during the Persian Wars. Their hostility engendered a persistent refusal to acknowledge the truth of collaboration during the tyranny and so a revisionism which fundamentally affected the tradition about it. This study first examines the psychology of mass revisionism and of the early fifth century Athenians leading to their transfigurement of the tyrannicide/s; genos- and demos-traditions and topoi relating to the tyranny affirm and further define the distortion and deformative process affecting the historical record. This work aims to establish better bases for reconstructing Peisistratid history, but also for comprehending the psychology of Athenian antityrannism.