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The Historians of Greece and Rome (Paperback, New edition)
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The Historians of Greece and Rome (Paperback, New edition)
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Our understanding of Greek and Roman civilization is in
considerable measure a product of the intelligence and literary
skills of its historians. Writing at different times and from
different vantage points, the surviving historians illustrate the
influences to which the genre was subjected in the course of its
development. After Herodotus had established history as an
independent form of literature, Thucydides defined its purpose and
set a high standard of scientific and literary skill. Xenophon
introduced new and abiding characteristics and Polybius repudiated
the influences of rhetoric and drama and introduced Hellenistic
qualities and an new focus - Rome. Sallust, Caesar, Tacitus and
Livy among others, commented on the affairs of the Roman Republic
and Empire. This book provides a survey of the historians of the
ancient Greek and Roman world, exporing their surviving work, style
and influences.
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