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  • LITERARY TEXTS AND THE GREEK HISTORIAN
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    LITERARY TEXTS AND THE GREEK HISTORIAN
    CHRISTOPHER PELLING
    Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, biographies and philosophical works. These texts are themselves among the most skilled and highly wrought productions of a brilliant rhetorical culture. How is the historian to use them? This book address...

    $1,160.00

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  • HERODOTUS AND THE QUESTION WHY
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    HERODOTUS AND THE QUESTION WHY
    CHRISTOPHER PELLING
    This study of the ancient historian's work is "excellent . . . [A] rigorous and engaging introduction not only to Herodotus, but to many other Greek authors" ( Times Literary Supplement). In the fifth century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them system...

    $229.00

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