Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World

Raaflaub, Kurt A.

ISBN 10: 1118412508 / ISBN 13: 9781118412503

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

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Cloth, dj. Quarto. xiii & 425 pp. Mild shelf wear to dust jacket, with a significant tear along front right edge of dj. Contents very sound.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118412508
• ISBN 13: 9781118412503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Used-Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Weight: 1.852 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historiography

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Synopsis

Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories.

• Written by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines
• Truly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas
• Includes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism

About the Author

Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor, and Professor of Classics and History, emeritus at Brown University. His publications include The Discovery of Freedom (2004), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (with Josiah Ober and Robert Wallace, 2007), The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (ed., with Johann P. Arnason, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (with Richard J. A. Talbert, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), and The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-Cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations (ed., with Johann P. Arnason and Peter Wager, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).