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Title: | The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus Thucydides Xenophon and Polybius | Volume: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Author(s): | M.I. Finley | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year: | 1977 | Edition: | |||||||||||||||||||
| Language: | English | Pages (biblio\tech): | 512\512 | ||||||||||||||||||
| ISBN: | 014015065X, 9780140150650, 1101123265, 9781101123263 | ID: | 456541 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Time added: | 2011-06-04 13:46:07 | Time modified: | 2016-03-20 07:50:50 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Library: | Library issue: | до 2011-01 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 11 MB (11806593 bytes) | Extension: | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Topic: | History | Tags: | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Table of contents : Cover ......Page 1 THE GREEK HISTORIANS: The Essence of HERODOTUS THUCYDIDES XENOPHON POLYBIUS......Page 3 CONTENTS......Page 7 THE GREEK HISTORIANS......Page 9 INTRODUCTION......Page 11 A Note on the Selections and Translations......Page 30 A Brief Reading List......Page 32 HERODOTUS......Page 37 Lydia......Page 39 The Antiquity of Egypt......Page 73 The Nile Flood......Page 75 Manners and Customs......Page 78 Origins of the Greek Gods......Page 81 The Truth about the Trojan War......Page 84 The Building of the Pyramids......Page 89 The Persian War after Marathon......Page 91 The Persian War after Marathon (Continued)......Page 167 THUCYDIDES......Page 227 The Beginnings......Page 228 The Funeral Oration of Pericles (431 B.C.)......Page 275 The Plague in Athens......Page 283 The Mitylenian Debate......Page 288 Sedition in Corcyra (427 B.C.)......Page 300 The War in Sicily......Page 308 The Sicilian Disaster (413 B.C.)......Page 357 XENOPHON......Page 391 From BOOK I......Page 393 From BOOK II......Page 400 From BOOK III......Page 427 From BOOK IV......Page 434 POLYBIUS......Page 451 Introduction......Page 452 Aratus of Sicyon and the Achaean League......Page 457 The Roman Constitution......Page 483 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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