| Description |
vi, 501 pages : map ; 18 cm |
| Note |
The Viking Portable Library |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-23). |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A brief reading list -- Map -- Herodotus. From Book I: Lydia -- From Book II: The antiquity of Egypt/The Nile flood/Manners and customs/Origins of the Greek Gods/The truth about the Trojan War/The building of the pyramids -- From Book VII: The Persian War after Marathon -- From Book VIII: The Persian War after Marathon (continued). Thucydides. From Book I: The beginnings -- From Book II: The funeral oration of Pericles/The plague in Athens -- From Book III: The Mitylenian debate/Sedition in Corcyra -- From Book VI: The war in Sicily -- From Book VII: The Sicilian disaster. Xenophon: The Anabasis. From Book I -- From Book II -- From Book III -- From Book IV. Polybius. From Book I: Introduction -- From Book II: Aratus of Sicyon and the Achaean League -- From Book VI: The Roman Constitution. |
| Summary |
Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"--Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories |
| Subject |
Greece -- Historiography.
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Greece -- History.
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Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
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Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
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| Added Author |
Finley, M. I. (Moses I.), 1912-1986, compiler.
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Rawlinson, George, 1812-1902, translator.
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Crawley, Richard, 1840-1893, translator.
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Watson, J. S. (John Selby), 1804-1884, translator.
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Shuckburgh, Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley), 1843-1906, translator.
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Container of (expression): Herodotus.
History. Selections (Finley). English (Rawlinson)
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Container of (expression): Thucydides.
History of the Peloponnesian War. Selections (Finley). English (Crawley)
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Container of (expression): Xenophon.
Anabasis. Selections (Finley). English (Watson)
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Container of (expression): Polybius.
Historiae. Selections (Finley). English (Shuckburgh)
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| Cover Title |
Portable Greek historians |
| ISBN |
014015065X |
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9780140150650 |
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