
This well known, easily read work covers the entire field of classical historians from the early writers to Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, through Poseidonius and such Romans as Tacitus, Cato, Caesar, Livy. Scores of writers are studied biographically, in style, sources, accuracy, structure, historical concepts, and influences. Recent discoveries such as the Oxyrhinchus papyri are ferrred to, as well as such great scholars as Nissen, Gomperz, Cornford, etc. " Totally unblemished by pedantry." --- Outlook" The best account in English." --- Dutcher, A Guide to Historical Literature
Page Count:
292
Publication Date:
2002-01-01
Publisher:
University Press of the Pacific
ISBN-10:
141020085X
ISBN-13:
9781410200853
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