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Usher, Stephen

 
9780862921521: The Historians of Greece and Rome (BCPaperbacks)
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ISBN 10: 086292152X ISBN 13: 9780862921521
Editorial: Bristol Classical Press, 1997

Sinopsis

Our understanding of Greek and Roman civilization is in considerable measure a product of the intelligence and literary skills of its historians. Writing at different times and from different vantage points, the surviving historians illustrate the influences to which the genre was subjected in the course of its development. After Herodotus had established history as an independent form of literature, Thucydides defined its purpose and set a high standard of scientific and literary skill. Xenophon introduced new and abiding characteristics and Polybius repudiated the influences of rhetoric and drama and introduced Hellenistic qualities and an new focus - Rome. Sallust, Caesar, Tacitus and Livy among others, commented on the affairs of the Roman Republic and Empire. This book provides a survey of the historians of the ancient Greek and Roman world, exporing their surviving work, style and influences.

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Stephen Usher was Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK.

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Editorial
Bristol Classical Press
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
086292152X
ISBN 13 
9780862921521
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
286
Contacto del fabricante
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