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Moral history from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus / Lisa Irene Hau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hau, Lisa Irene, author.
- Series:
- Spinoza studies.
- Spinoza studies
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects--Greece.
- Historiography.
- Greece--Moral conditions.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh University Press 2016
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Ancient Greek.
- Summary:
- Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across.
- Contents:
- Hellenistic historiography. Polybius ; Diodorus Siculus ; Fragmentary Hellenistic historiography
- Classical historiography. Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Xenophon, Hellenica
- Fragmentary classical historiography.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-298) and index.
- CC BY-NC
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
- ISBN:
- 9781474411097
- 1474411096
- 9781474427135
- 1474427138
- 9781474445078
- 1474445071
- 9781474422048
- 1474422047
- 9781474411080
- 1474411088
- OCLC:
- 96444733
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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