| Description |
281 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
1. The rise of Greek history in Ionia -- 2. Herodotus -- 3. Thucydides -- 4. Thucydides (continued) -- 5. The development of Greek historiography after Thucydides -- 6. Polybius (and Poseidonius) -- 7. The influence of Greek on Roman historiography -- 8. Views of the ancients concerning the use of history -- Appendix. The re-handling of his History by Thucydides |
| Summary |
Professor Bury covers the entire range of Greek historical writing form from its inception in the pseudo-historical aspects of the epics to the influence of Greek thought on Roman historiography. He shows how the idea of history became separated from the concept of recording and inventing mythologies, the introduction of a rationalistic view of history, the concept of political analysis, the influence of rhetoric on historical methodology, the effects of philosophy and the rise of antiquarianism on history, and dozens of similarly important topics. - back of book |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Reprint of the 1909 edition |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 267-271 |
| Subject |
Greek literature.
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Historians -- Greece.
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Historiography.
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History, Ancient -- Historiography.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115278
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Greece -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057073 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
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Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115280
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| LC no. |
58011272 |
| ISBN |
0486203972 |
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9780486203973 |
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