num_pages: 292
description: This well known, easily read work covers the entire field of classical historians from the early writers to Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, through Poseidonius and such Romans as Tacitus, Cato, Caesar, Livy. Scores of writers are studied biographically, in style, sources, accuracy, structure, historical concepts, and influences. Recent discoveries such as the Oxyrhinchus papyri are referrred to, as well as such great scholars as Nissen, Gomperz, Cornford, etc.
language: English
title: The Ancient Greek Historians
titlecomplete: The Ancient Greek Historians
genres: Classics, History
ratings_count: 36
publisher: University Press of the Pacific