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Author | : Torrey James Luce |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415105927 |
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The Greeks invented history as a literary genre in the fifth century BC. This book follows the development of history from Herodotus, via Thucydides, Xenophon and Polybius, until the Hellenistic age.
Author | : P. A. Brunt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198152422 |
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Peter Brunt was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1982. This book contains a selection of his writings on Greek history and thought. Some were previously published as papers in journals, but about a third of the volume is new. There are essays onGreek political history of the fifth century BC and on historiography, including an introduction to Thucydides designed for the more general reader, to which the author has now annexed a new study of Thucydides' funeral speech. Of the new essays, two examine the extent to which Plato and his pupilssought, or were able, to make any impact on the actual world of their time and the practicality of the model city in Plato's Laws; and a third discusses Aristotle's theory of slavery in relation to the actual Greek institution and to other attempts to justify slavery, as well as in the context ofAristotle's ethical doctrines.
Author | : Adam Parry |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1975-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521205875 |
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A consideration of authors and historians from fifth century BC onwards who shed light on the Greek tradition of historical writing.
Author | : Mary Lefkowitz |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2022-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1984854313 |
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From the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chroniclers “Just the thing to remind us that human history, though lamentably a work in progress, is always something we can understand better.”—Sarah Ruden, translator of The Gospels and author of The Face of Water The historians of ancient Greece were pioneers of a new literary craft; their work stands among the world’s most enduring and important legacies and forms the foundation of a major modern discipline. This highly readable edition includes new and newly revised translations of selections from Herodotus—often called the “father of history”—Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch, the four greatest Greek innovators of historical narrative. Here the reader will find their most important, and most widely taught, passages collected in a single volume. The excerpts chart the landmark events of ancient Greece and provide a comprehensive account of the entire classical Greek age. From the start the Greek historians demonstrated how broad and varied historical writing could be and brought their craft beyond a mere chronicle of past events. This volume explores each author’s interest in religion, leadership, character, and the lessons of war. How, for instance, should readers interpret Herodotus’ inclusion of speeches and dialogues, dreams, and oracles as part of the “factual” record? What did Thucydides understand about human nature that (as he said) stays constant throughout time? How did Plutarch frame historical biography as a means of depicting the moral qualities of great men? Complete with introductions to the works of each historian, footnotes providing context and explaining obscurities, maps, and an appendix on the Greek conduct of war, this volume is an invaluable resource for students and passionate readers of history alike.
Author | : John Marincola |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2001-12-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780199225019 |
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This survey of more recent work on Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius synthesises some of the most important research from the last few decades.
Author | : P. Nicolacopoulos |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400920156 |
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Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical, admirably original and respectfully traditional, these essays will deserve close study by philosophical readers throughout the world. Classical scholars and historians of science likewise will be stimulated, and the historians of ancient as well as modern philosophers too. Reviewers might note one or more of the contributions as of special interest, or as subject to critical wrestling (that ancient tribute); we will simply congratulate Pantelis Nicolacopoulos for assembling the essays and presenting the book, and we thank the contributors for their works and for their happy agreement to let their writings appear in this book. R. S. C. xi INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Neither philosophy nor science is new to Greece, but philosophy of science is. There are broader (socio-historical) and more specific (academic) reasons that explain, to a satisfactory degree, both the under-development of philosophy and history of science in Greece until recently and its recent development to international standards. It is, perhaps, not easy to have in mind the fact that the modem Greek State is only 160 years old (during quite a period of which it was consider ably smaller than it is today, its present territory having been settled after World War II).
Author | : Morris Raphael Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mirko Canevaro |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 591 |
Release | : 2018-06-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1474421784 |
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The first full-length academic study to deal exclusively with female stardom in British cinema.
Author | : Pernille Flensted-Jensen |
Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788772896281 |
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Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant contributions to the field of Greek history over the past three decades.
Author | : Adam Parry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
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