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genre and narrative in ancient historical texts

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
363

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Subjects

Historiography, History, Ancient History, Narration (Rhetoric), Literary form

Times

To 1500

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Table of Contents

Social pleasures in early Chinese historiography and philosophy / David Schaberg
Knowledge and skepticism in ancient Chinese historiography / Wai-Yee Li
Local versus general history in Old Hittite historiography / Alexander Uchitel
Commemoration, writing, and genre in ancient Mesopotamia / Piotr Michalowski
The Persian kings and history / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg
History, historiography, and the use of the past in the Hebrew Bible / Thomas M. Bolin
Thucydides' Persian wars / Timothy Rood
Guiding metaphor and narrative point of view in Livy's Ab urbe condita / Mary Jaeger
Tacitus' Histories and the theory of deliberative oratory / David S. Levene
Jugurthine disorder / Christina S. Kraus
Universal perspectives in historiography / Katherine Clarke
Genre, convention, and innovation in Greco-Roman historiography / John Marincola
Epilogue / Christopher Pelling.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava., 191

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
930/.07/2
Library of Congress
D56 .L56 1999, D56.L56 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 363 p. ;
Number of pages
363

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL40521M
ISBN 10
9004106707
LCCN
99031269
Library Thing
8004943
Goodreads
1447096

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