1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456243603321

Titolo

Opportunities and priorities in arctic geoscience [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Arctic Solid-Earth Geosciences, Polar Research Board, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1991

ISBN

1-280-20380-3

9786610203802

0-309-58330-6

0-585-08568-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (79 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrantzArthur <1927->

Disciplina

559.8/072

Soggetti

Geology - Arctic regions

Electronic books.

Arctic regions Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Support provided jointly by the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Arthur Day Fund.

Committee chairman: Arthur Grantz.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-67).



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996212906603316

Titolo

Thucydides and Herodotus / / edited by Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

1280498587

9786613593818

0191626406

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 399 pages)

Classificazione

6,12

FH 23720

FH 26175

Altri autori (Persone)

FosterEdith (Edith Marie)

LateinerDonald

Disciplina

938.007202

Soggetti

Historiography - Greece - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner -- Structure and meaning in epic and historiography / Richard B. Rutherford -- Thucydides as reader of Herodotus / Philip A. Stadter -- Indirect discourse in Herodotus and Thucydides / Carlo Scardino -- The rationality of Herodotus and Thucydides as evidenced by their respective use of numbers / Catherine Rubicam -- Herodotus and Thucydides on blind decisions preceding military action / Hans-Peter Stahl -- Oaths : theory and practice in the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides / Donald Lateiner -- Thermopylae and Pylos, with reference to the Homeric background / Edith Foster -- Thucydides on Themistocles : a Herodotean narrator? / Wolfgang Blòˆsel -- Persians in Thucydides / Rosaria Vignolo Munson -- Aristotle's Rhetoric, the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, and the speeches in Herodotus and Thucydides / Christopher Pelling -- A noble alliance : Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon's Procles / Emily Baragwanath -- Herodotus and Thucydides in Roman Republican historiography / Iris Samotta.

Sommario/riassunto

'Thucydides and Herodotus' is an edited collection which looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th century



BCE. It examines the relevant relationship between them which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized.