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Record Nr.

UNISA996465265203316

Autore

Hau Lisa Irene

Titolo

Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus / / Lisa Irene Hau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4744-1109-6

1-4744-2713-8

1-4744-4507-1

1-4744-2204-7

1-4744-1108-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Spinoza studies

Classificazione

NB 5150

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Ethics

Mind and body

Moral exhortation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-298) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hellenistic historiography. Polybius ; Diodorus Siculus ; Fragmentary Hellenistic historiography -- Classical historiography. Herodotus ; Thucydides ; Xenophon, Hellenica -- Fragmentary classical historiography.

Sommario/riassunto

Lisa Irene 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.