Donald Kagan

Studies in the Greek Historians

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A consideration of authors and historians from fifth century BC onwards who shed light on the Greek tradition of historical writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521124690
• ISBN-10: 0521124697
• Artikelnr.: 27384796

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
In memoriam Adam and Anne Parry E. A. Havelock
1. Learning through suffering? Croesus' conversations in the history of Herodotus Hans-Peter Stahl
2. An Athenian generation gap W. G. Forrest
3. Thucydides' judgement of Periclean strategy George Cawkwell
4. The speeches in Thucydides and the Mytilene debate Donald Kagan
5. Xenophon, Diodorus and the year 379/378 BC. Reconstruction and reappraisal David G. Rice
6. Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia and the establishment of the Thirty Tyrants W. James McCoy
7. Nearchus the Cretan E. Badian
8. Myth and archaeologia in Italy and Sicily - Timaeus and his predecessors Lionel Pearson
9. Symploke: its role in Polybius' Histories F. W. Walbank
10. Plutarch and the Megarian decree Charles Fornara
11. Herodian and Elagabalus G. W. Bowersock.