Thucydides and the idea of history / Neville Morley.
Thucydides and the idea of history / Neville Morley.
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London : I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2014.
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G 2015/2579
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English
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xxvii, 213 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The historian's historian -- Reason, reality and science -- Personality and partiality -- Rhetoric and the art of history -- The uses and uselessness of history.
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Publisher
London : I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2014.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2014.
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"From the eighteenth century onwards, the ancient Greek writer Thucydides (c 460 - c 395 BCE) was viewed as the most important classical historian. He was acclaimed not only as a vital source for reconstructing antiquity but as a purveyor of timeless political wisdom. His name is almost inescapable in nineteenth-century discussions of history's nat...
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Thucydides and the idea of history / Neville Morley.
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New directions in classics ; 4.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2014.
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G 2015/2579
Record Identifier
74VK7omxbj7A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7omxbj7A
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ISBN
1848851707 (pbk.)
9781848851696 (hbk.)
1848851693 (hbk.)
9781848851702 (pbk.)
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938.007202
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991022888489702626
