The ancient Greek historians (Harvard lectures)
By: by J. B. Bury...
Publisher: The Macmillan company
Published: 1909
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Historiography; History
Notes: "This volume consists of the Lane lectures which I had the honour of delivering at Harvard university in spring 1906, under the auspices of the Classical department."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: The rise of Greek history in Ionia.; title: Herodotus.; title: Thucydides.; title: The development of Greek historiography after Thucydides.; title: Polybius (and Poseidonius); title: The influence of Greek on Roman historiography.; title: Views of the ancients concerning the use of history.; title: Apendix: The rehandling of his History by Thucydides.; title: Bibliography (p. 267-271)