The Story of Ancient History / James T. Shotwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shotwell, James T., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1939]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the development of how history is studied and interpreted. Includes Jewish, Greek, Roman and Christian views.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Part I: INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I .Definition and Scope of History

CHAPTER II. The Interpretation of History

CHAPTER III. Prehistory; Myth and Legend

CHAPTER IV. Books and Writing

CHAPTER V. The Measuring of Time

CHAPTER VI. Egyptian Annals

CHAPTER VII. Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian Records

Part II :JEWISH HISTORY

CHAPTER VIII. The Old Testament as History

CHAPTER IX .The Pentateuch

CHAPTER X. The Remaining Historical Books of the Old Testament

CHAPTER XI. The Formation of the Canon

CHAPTER XII. Non-Biblical Literature; Josephus

Part III: GREEK HISTORY

CHAPTER XIII: From Homer to Herodotus

CHAPTER XIV .Herodotus

CHAPTER XV. Thucydides

CHAPTER XVI .Rhetoric and Scholarship

CHAPTER XVII. Polybius

CHAPTER XVIII. Later Greek Historians

Part IV :ROMAN HISTORY

CHAPTER XIX. History at Rome; Oratory and Poetry

CHAPTER XX. Roman Annalists and Early Historians

CHAPTER XXI. Varrò, Caesar, and Sallust

CHAPTER XXII. Livy

CHAPTER XXIII. Tacitus

CHAPTER XXIV. From Suetonius to Ammianus Marcellinus

PART V: CHRISTIANITY AND HISTORY

CHAPTER XXV. The New Era

CHAPTER XXVI: Allegory and the Contribution of Origen

CHAPTER XXVIII. The City of God

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89137-7

OCLC:

1100432690