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The essential Greek historians / edited, with introductions and notes, by Stanley M. Burstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historians--Greece.
- Historians.
- Historiography.
- Greece--Historiography.
- Greece.
- Greece--History--To 146 B.C--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2022]
- Summary:
- "An anthology of key selections from the writings of the most important ancient Greek historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Aristotle, Polybius, Memnon, and Plutarch. Maps, editorial annotations, and an index are also provided"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Herodotus, The Histories
- From Book 1
- Preface
- Mythical Confrontations
- Lydia (c. 680 BCE to 546 BCE)
- The Reign of Cyrus the Great
- From Book 3
- Cambyses's Aithiopian Campaign
- From Book 6
- The Battle of Marathon
- From Book 9
- The Persian Retreat
- Birth of the Delian League
- Herodotus on Athens and Persia
- ch. 2 Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
- Early History of Greece
- Methodology
- From Book 2
- Pericles's Funeral Oration
- The Plague
- Pericles's Last Speech
- The Mytilenean Debate
- Civil War at Corcyra
- From Book 4
- The End of the Corcyrean Insurgents
- From Book 5
- The Second Preface
- The Melian Dialogue
- From Book 7
- Battle in the Great Harbor
- The Athenian Retreat
- Nicias's Speech
- ch. 3 Xenophon, The Hellenica
- The End of the Peloponnesian War
- The Tyranny of the Thirty
- ch. 4 Aristotle, The Constitution of Athens
- The Reforms of Solon
- The Tyranny of Peisistratus and His Sons
- The Reforms of Cleisthenes
- Cleisthenic Democracy
- The Supremacy of the Areopagus
- The Reforms of Ephialtes
- ch. 5 The Parian Marble
- Fragment A
- The Legendary Period
- Beginning of History
- Archaic Period
- Classical Period
- Fragment B
- Alexander the Great and His Successors
- ch. 6 Polybius, The Histories
- The Achaean League
- The Cleomenic War (229 BCE to 222 BCE)
- How Not to Write History
- The Death of Cleomenes
- From the Preface to Book 6
- The Cycle of Constitutions
- Comparison of Constitutions
- ch. 7 Memnon, History of Heracleia
- The Evil Tyrants: Clearchus (364 BCE to 352 BCE) and Satyrus (352 BCE to 346 BCE)
- The Good Tyrants: Timotheus (346 BCE to 337 BCE) and Dionysius (337 BCE to 305 BCE)
- The Fall of the Tyranny (305 BCE to 281 BCE)
- Heracleia as a Black Sea Power (281 BCE to c. 250 BCE)
- Heracleia and Rome (c. 200 BCE to 188 BCE)
- ch. 8 Plutarch, Life of Alexander
- Alexander's Family and Youth
- The Death of Philip II
- Alexander and the Greeks
- The Invasion of the Persian Empire
- The Battle at the Granicus River
- The Battle of Issus
- Alexander in Egypt
- The Battle of Gaugamela
- Alexander and the Persians
- Alexander in India
- Return to the West
- Babylon and the Death of Alexander.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781647920401
- 164792040X
- 9781647920500
- 1647920507
- OCLC:
- 1292972665
- Publisher Number:
- 99992989415
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