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Diodorus of Sicily

Author : Diodorus Siculus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674993071

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Diodorus "On Egypt"

Author : Diodorus (Siculus.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019222382

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The Cults of the Greek States

Author : Lewis Richard Farnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Cults
ISBN : UOM:39015003873836

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Diodorus Siculus, Book I

Author : Burton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004296312

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Preliminary material /ANNE BURTON -- THE SOURCES FOR BOOK I /ANNE BURTON -- COMMENTARY /ANNE BURTON -- INDEX /ANNE BURTON.

A Historical Commentary on Diodorus Siculus, Book 15

Author : P. J. Stylianou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0198152396

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A Historical Commentary on Diodorus Siculus, Book 15 by P. J. Stylianou Pdf

For long stretches of Greek history in the classical period, Diodorus Siculus provides the only surviving continuous narrative of events. This study, the fullest ever undertaken of Diodorus, examines his aims, sources, and methods in detail. The findings of this investigation are then applied in commenting on Book 15, which deals with the crucial years between the King's Peace, concluded in 387/6 BC, and the aftermath of the battle of Mantinea fought in 362 BC.

Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292779075

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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.

Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic

Author : Charles Edward Muntz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190498726

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Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic by Charles Edward Muntz Pdf

Sumario: Chapter 1 Diodorus, Quellenforschung, and Beyond - Chapter 2 Organizing the World Chapter - 3 The Origins of Civilization - Chapter 4 Mythical History - Chapter 5 The Deified Culture-bringers - Chapter 6 Kings, Kingship, and Rome - Chapter 7 The Roman Civil Wars and the Bibliotheke - Bibliography.

Livy Book XXVII

Author : Livy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107620025

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Livy Book XXVII by Livy Pdf

Originally published in 1913, this book contains the Latin text of the 27th book of the monumental history of Rome by Titus Livius, which deals with Roman advances against Punic forces in Italy and Spain. The history is prefaced with an introduction to Livy's sources and a guide to his dense style.

The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian

Author : Diodorus (Siculus.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1700
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : UCSD:31822043010073

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The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian by Diodorus (Siculus.) Pdf

Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus

Author : Lisa Irene Hau
Publisher : Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Greece
ISBN : 1474427138

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Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus by Lisa Irene Hau Pdf

Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa 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 uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends.

Diodorus' Mythistory and the Pagan Mission

Author : Iris Sulimani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004194069

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Diodorus' Mythistory and the Pagan Mission by Iris Sulimani Pdf

Examining Diodorus Siculus’ historiographical methods and his representation of mythical culture-heroes, this study demonstrates the significant contribution of the author’s first pentad to his universal history and its importance as a supplement to our perception of Hellenistic civilization.

Velleius Paterculus

Author : Eleanor Cowan
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589205

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Velleius Paterculus by Eleanor Cowan Pdf

Velleius Paterculus' short work is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins to his own times. In a period from which no other contemporary historical narrative survives in more than meagre fragments, Velleius' work is uniquely important. It is a critical counter to the later accounts of Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio, not simply because it offers a different view of Tiberius, but because Velleius saw continuity where later authors saw only radical change which destroyed the Republic and put monarchy in its place. For other reasons, too, Velleius occupies a unique position in Roman historiography. This collection of papers, by a distinguished cast of scholars, represents a wide-ranging re-examination of Velleius' work, of its place within, and contribution to, Roman historiography and the intellectual history of the early Principate.

The Imagination of Plants

Author : Matthew Hall
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438474373

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The Imagination of Plants by Matthew Hall Pdf

Examines the role of plants in botanical mythology, from Aboriginal Australia to Zoroastrian Persia. Plants have a remarkable mythology dating back thousands of years. From the ancient Greeks to contemporary Indigenous cultures, human beings have told colorful and enriching stories that have presented plants as sensitive, communicative, and intelligent. This book explores the myriad of plant tales from around the world and the groundbreaking ideas that underpin them. Amid the key themes of sentience and kinship, it connects the anemone to the meaning of human life, tree hugging to the sacred basil of India, and plant intelligence with the Finnish epic The Kalevala. Bringing together commentary, original source material, and colorful illustrations, Matthew Hall challenges our perspective on these myths, the plants they feature, and the human beings that narrate them. “Whether or not we believe that any plant actually has an imagination, the rhetorical flourish in Matthew Hall’s title sends us into his book with a serious interest in what he has to say. This is a valuable addition to our knowledge about mythic tale-telling and awareness of those elements of the animate world that science, since the Renaissance, has always placed on the lowest scale of value. Hall wants to redress this imbalance, and he does so by revealing just how essential (to Indigenous cultures) the plant kingdom was to humanity’s place in the universe.” — Ashton Nichols, author of Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting

Sketches of the History of Man

Author : Lord Henry Home Kames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1779
Category : Civilization
ISBN : OXFORD:400216244

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Diodorus Siculus and the First Century

Author : Kenneth S. Sacks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0691630283

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Diodorus Siculus and the First Century by Kenneth S. Sacks Pdf

Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus himself has been commonly seen as a "mere copyist" of earlier historical traditions, Kenneth Sacks explores the complexity of his work to reveal a historian with a distinct point of view indicative of his times. Sacks focuses on three areas of Diodorus's history writing: methods of organization and style, broad historical and philosophical themes, and political sentiments. Throughout, Diodorus introduced his own ideas or refashioned those found in his sources. In particular, his negative reaction to Roman imperial rule helps to illuminate the obscure tradition of opposition historiography and to explain the shape and structure of the Bibliotheke. Viewed as a unified work reflecting the intellectual and political beliefs of the late Hellenistic period, the Bibliotheke will become an important source for interpreting first-century moral, political, and intellectual values. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.