The Greek and Roman Historians

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Timothy E. Duff

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Classical world

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What did 'history' mean to the Greeks and the Romans? This volume traces the development of conceptions of history and its practice from Homer to the writers of the Roman Empire. It serves as an introduction to the great historians of the ancient world and contains sections on Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius and others. Each section is designed to be self-contained and may be read on its own; but links between the different historians, the ways in which they competed with and were influenced by one another, are constantly brought out. The main ancient historians are household names but Duff stresses not only the ways in which they seem familiar but also those in which they are alien to today's readers; for the ancient historian was always concerned with improving the reader as much as informing him. As well as the most familiar names, Duff also includes in his account others whose work survives only in fragments, especially Greeks of the fourth century BC and the Hellenistic era, whose entire works were known to their Roman successors.

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Timothy E. Duff is Reader in Classics at the University of Reading. He is author of "The Greek and Roman Historians" and "Plutarch's Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice" along with numerous further papers on Plutarch.

Release date Australia

June 27th, 2003

Author

Timothy E. Duff

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

136

Series

Classical world

Dimensions

140x215x8

ISBN-13

9781853996016

Product ID

2117693

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