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Paperback. Condition: Very good. Very good softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. ( 5.43 x 0.38 x 8.5 inches) 7 pages in the chapter on Polybius has marginalia by the late Professor Peter Green. Includes list of abbreviations, further readings and an index. 156 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The Greeks invented history as a literary genre in the fifth century B.C. The first historians owed much to Homer and adopted his vivid and direct style in narrating historical events. Yet, despite the influence of Homer the birth of history was basically a reaction against mythical accounts of the past. Homer wrote about war and travel in foreign lands, in the distant and mythical past. In contrast, the Greek historians of the fifth century wrote about contemporary or very recent events, where eye witnesses could be interviewed and facts checked. The Greek Historians follows the development of history from Herodotus, via Thucydides, Xenophon and Polybius, until the Hellenistic age. It introduces the individual writers and their topics, yet it also outlines their attitudes to historiography and their criticisms of each other. Such themes as the uses and value of truth and causation are traced, as well as the growing constraints on free speech under Hellenistic monarchs and the Romans. Written in an accessible and captivating manner, with suggestions for further reading, this book serves as a lucid introduction to Greek historians and writing of history.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Stamp to bottom of textblock "USED BOOK" and faint stamp to ffep (Sep 16, 1999). Very light wear to corners.; 168 pages; The Greeks invented history as a literary genre in the fifth century B. C. The first historians owed much to Homer and adopted his vivid and direct style in narrating historical events. Yet, despite the influence of Homer the birth of history was basically a reaction against mythical accounts of the past. Homer wrote about war and travel in foreign lands, in the distant and mythical past. In contrast, the Greek historians of the fifth century wrote about contemporary or very recent events, where eye witnesses could be interviewed and facts checked. The Greek Historians follows the development of history from Herodotus, via Thucydides, Xenophon and Polybius, until the Hellenistic age. It introduces the individual writers and their topics, yet it also outlines their attitudes to historiography and their criticisms of each other. Such themes as the uses and value of truth and causation are traced, as well as the growing constraints on free speech under Hellenistic monarchs and the Romans. Written in an accessible and captivating manner, with suggestions for further reading, this book serves as a lucid introduction to Greek historians and writing of history.…

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Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993. XII,207p. Original red cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrps slightly discoloured and with light edgewear. A few light remains of (coloured) pencil markings in the margins of pp.VII,XII, XVI and 200.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 volume set. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Foxing to edges. Contains forty-seven essays that provide information about the lives and significant achievements of Greek and Roman writers born before A.D. 337, each with a selected bibliography; and includes a chronology of events, and an alphabetical index. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.…

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