On writing history : from Herodotus to Herodian /
This anthology of writings from the ancient world explores how history should be written and what responsibility the historian bears. It ranges from longer pieces, such as the complete essays 'On Thucydides' by Dionysus, 'On the Malice of Herodotus' by Plutarch and the witty ...
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| Language: | English Ancient Greek Latin |
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[London?] UK :
Penguin Books,
2017
[London?] UK ; USA : Penguin Random House UK, 2017 [London] : 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Hecataeus of Miletus
- Herodotus
- Antiochus of Syracuse
- Thucydides
- Ctesias of Cnidus
- Xenophon
- Ephorus of Cyme
- Aristotle
- Theopompus of Chios
- Callisthenes
- Timaeus of Tauromenium
- Duris of Samos
- Cato the Elder
- Agatharchides of Cnidus
- Polybius
- Sempronius Asellio
- Cicero
- Diodorus
- Sallust
- Strabo
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
- Livy
- The Elder Seneca
- Pompeius Trogus
- The Younger Seneca
- Quintilian
- Josephus
- Plutarch
- Tacitus
- The Younger Pliny
- Arrian
- Appian
- Fronto
- Lucian
- Granius Licinianus
- Sextus Empiricus
- Cassius Dio
- Herodian
- Ammianus Marcellinus
- Anonymous evaluation of historians
- Anonymous commentary on Thucydides
- Hecataeus of Miletus
- Herodotus
- Antiochus of Syracuse
- Thucydides
- Ctesias of Cnidus
- Xenophon
- Ephorus of Cyme
- Aristotle
- Theopompus of Chios
- Callisthenes
- Timaeus of Tauromenium
- Duris of Samos
- Cato the Elder
- Agatharchides of Cnidus
- Polybus
- Sempronius Asellio
- Cicero
- Diodorus
- Sallust
- Strabo
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus
- Livy
- The Elder Seneca
- Pompeius Trogus
- The Younger Seneca
- Quintilian
- Josephus
- Plutarch
- Tacitus
- The Younger Pliny
- Arrian
- Appian
- Fronto
- Lucian
- Granius Licinianus
- Sextus Empiricus
- Cassius Dio
- Herodian
- Ammianus Marcellinus
- Anonymous evaluation of historians
- Anonymous commentary on Thucydides