Author : J.M. Alonso-Núnez
Release : 2021-10-18
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 219/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis The Idea of Universal History in Greece by : J.M. Alonso-Núnez
Download or read book The Idea of Universal History in Greece written by J.M. Alonso-Núnez. This book was released on 2021-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an expanded version of a lecture given in the Departments of History and Classics at Harvard in 1998. Starting from a methodological point of view, this book show the evolution of the idea of world history through the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Ctesias, Ephorus, Polybius and others up to the historians of the Augustan epoch.