Author: Edward Augustus Freeman
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Category : Sicily (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: Edward Augustus Freeman
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Category : Sicily (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292779070
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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2007 — A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. Yet this important historian has been consistently denigrated as a mere copyist who slavishly reproduced the works of earlier historians without understanding what he was writing. By contrast, in this iconoclastic work Peter Green builds a convincing case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. Through a fresh English translation of a key portion of his multi-volume history (the so-called Bibliotheke, or "Library") and a commentary and notes that refute earlier assessments of Diodorus, Green offers a fairer, better balanced estimate of this much-maligned historian. The portion of Diodorus' history translated here covers the period 480-431 BCE, from the Persian invasion of Greece to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. This half-century, known as the Pentekontaetia, was the Golden Age of Periclean Athens, a time of unprecedented achievement in drama, architecture, philosophy, historiography, and the visual arts. Green's accompanying notes and commentary revisit longstanding debates about historical inconsistencies in Diodorus' work and offer thought-provoking new interpretations and conclusions. In his masterful introductory essay, Green demolishes the traditional view of Diodorus and argues for a thorough critical reappraisal of this synthesizing historian, who attempted nothing less than a "universal history" that begins with the gods of mythology and continues down to the eve of Julius Caesar's Gallic campaigns.

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Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Mandell Creighton
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 870

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Author: John Baron Moyle
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Category : Roman law
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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