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Moral history from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus /

An investigation of moral-didactic techniques and messages in ancient Greek historiography. Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hau, Lisa Irene (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Historiography > Moral and ethical aspects > Greece.
Greece > Moral conditions.
Literary studies : classical, early and medieval.
Literary studies : general.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature : history and criticism.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Historiography > Moral and ethical aspects.
Moral conditions.
Greece.
Classics.
Classical.
Early and Medieval.
Ancient History.
Literary Studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Hellenistic historiography. Polybius ; Diodorus Siculus ; Fragmentary Hellenistic historiography
  • Classical historiography. Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Xenophon, Hellenica
  • Fragmentary classical historiography.