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Lessons from the past : the moral use of history in fourth-century prose / Frances Pownall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pownall, Frances, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Historiography.
- Exempla in literature.
- Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects.
- History.
- Greece--History--To 146 B.C--Historiography.
- Greece.
- Greece--Intellectual life--To 146 B.C.
- Intellectual life.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2004.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Deepens our understanding of the Greek tendency to view the past as a source for contemporary moral lessons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472025671
- 0472113275
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.17777
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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