Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus / / Lisa Irene Hau
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| Autore: |
Hau Lisa Irene
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| Titolo: |
Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus / / Lisa Irene Hau
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 170 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethics |
| Mind and body | |
| Moral exhortation | |
| Classificazione: | NB 5150 |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Moral history from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus |
| ISBN: | 1-4744-1109-6 |
| 1-4744-2713-8 | |
| 1-4744-4507-1 | |
| 1-4744-2204-7 | |
| 1-4744-1108-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996465265203316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Spinoza studies.