By John Marincola
This two-volume better half to Greek and Roman Historiography displays the hot instructions and interpretations that experience arisen within the box of historical historiography long ago few decades.
- Comprises a chain of innovative articles written by means of acknowledged scholars
- Presents wide, chronological remedies of significant concerns within the writing of heritage and antiquity
- These are complemented through chapters on person genres and sub-genres from the 5th century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E.
- Provides a chain of interpretative readings at the person historians
- Contains essays at the neighbouring genres of tragedy, biography, and epic, between others, and their dating to history
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