Literary texts and the Greek historian
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Literary texts and the Greek historian
(Approaching the ancient world)
Routledge, 2000
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Tochigi
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
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  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-324) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780415073509
Description
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780415073516
Description
Accessible introduction designed to help students understand.
The complexity of historical sources and historiography.
Christopher Pelling is well known and well respected.
Comprehensive survey and well-documented with source material.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 A culture of rhetoric
- Chapter 2 Rhetoric and history (415 BC)
- Chapter 3 How far would they go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades
- Chapter 4 Rhetoric and history II
- Chapter 5 Explaining the war
- Chapter 6 Thucydides' speeches
- Chapter 7 'You cannot be serious'
- Chapter 8 Aristophanes' Acharnians (425 BC)
- Chapter 9 Tragedy and ideology
- Chapter 10 Lysistrata and others
- Chapter 11 Conclusions
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