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Title The essential Greek historians / edited, with introductions and notes, by Stanley M. Burstein.

Publication Info. Indianapolis, Indiana : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2022]
©2022

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Description xxxii, 255 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.
Contents Preface -- Note on translations -- Maps: Herodotus's view of the world ; The Greek world ; The Persian empire and the route of Alexander's campaigns -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Herodotus, The Histories: -- From Book 1. Preface ; Mythical confrontations ; Lydia (c. 680 BCE to 546 BCE) ; The reign of Cyrus the Great -- From Book 3. Cambyses's Aithiopian Campaign -- From Book 6. The Battle of Marathon -- From Book 9. The Persian retreat ; Birth of the Delian League ; Herodotus on Athens and Persia -- Chapter 2: Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War: From Book 1. Preface ; Early history of Greece ; Methodology -- From Book 2. Pericles's funeral oration ; The plague ; Pericles's last speech -- From Book 3. The Mytilenean debate ; Civil War at Corcyra -- From Book 4. The end of the Corcyrean insurgents -- From Book 5. The second Preface ; The Melian dialogue -- From Book 7. Battle in the Great Harbor ; The Athenian Retreat ; Nicias's Speech --
Chapter 3: Xenophon, The Hellenica: From Book 2. The end of the Peloponnesian War ; The Tyranny of the Thirty -- Chapter 4: Aristotle,, The Constitution of Athens: The reforms of Solon ; The tyranny of Peisistratus and his sons ; The reforms of Cleisthenes ; Cleisthenic democracy ; The supremacy of the Areopagus ; The reforms of Ephialtes -- Chapter 5: The Parian Marble: Fragment A. Preface ; The legendary period ; Beginning of history ; Archaic period ; Classical period -- Fragment B. Alexander the Great and his successors -- Chapter 6: Polybius, The histories: From Book 1. Preface ; From Book 2. The Achaean League ; The Cleomenic War (229 BCE to 222 BCE) ; How not to write history -- From Book 5: The death of Cleomenes ; From Book 6: From the Preface to Book 6 ; The cycle of Constitutions ; Comparison of Constitutions -- Chapter 7: Memnon, History of Heracleia: The evil tyrants: Clearchus (364 BCE to 352 BCE) and Satyrus (352 BCE to 346 BCE) ; The good tyrants: Timotheus (346 BCE to 337 BCE) and Dionysius (337 BCE to 305 BCE) ; Tha fall of the tyranny (305 BCE to 281 BCE) ; Heracleia as a Black Sea Power (281 BCE to c. 250 BCE) ; Heracleia and Rome (c. 200 BCE to 188 BCE) -- Chapter 8:Plutarch, Life of Alexander: Preface ; Alexander's family and youth ; The death of Philip II ; Alexander and the Greeks ; The invasion of the Persian Empire ; The battle at the Granicus River ; The Battle of Issus ; Alexander in Egypt ; The Battle of Gaugamela ; Alexander and the Persians ; Alexander in India ; Return to the West ; Babylon and the Death of Alexander.
Summary "An anthology of key selections from the writings of the most important ancient Greek historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Aristotle, Polybius, Memnon, and Plutarch. Maps, editorial annotations, and an index are also provided"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Greece -- Historiography.
Historians -- Greece.
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Historiography.
Historians (OCoLC)fst00957686
Historiography (OCoLC)fst00958221
Greece (OCoLC)fst01208380
Chronological Term To 146 B.C.
Genre/Form History (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Burstein, Stanley Mayer, editor. Editor.
Container of (work): Herodotus. History. Selections. Spanish. (Burstein)
Container of (work): Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Selections. English. (Burstein)
Container of (work): Xenophon. Hellenica. Selections. English. (Burstein)
Container of (work): Aristotle. Athnain politeia. Selections. English. (Burstein)
Container of (work): Polybius. Historiae. Selections. English. (Burstein)
Container of (work): Memnon, of Heraclea Pontica. Fragments. Selections. English. (Smith)
Container of (work): Plutarch. Alexander. Selections. English. (Mensch)
Added Title Container of (work): Parian Chronicle. Selections. English. (Burstein)
ISBN 9781647920401 (pbk.)
164792040X
9781647920500 (cloth)
1647920507
9781647920517 (pdf book)
9781647920739 electronic book

 
    
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