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" The Greek historians : "
selected and edited by M.I. Finley.
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BL
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949736
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b704106
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The Greek historians : : the essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius /\ selected and edited by M.I. Finley.
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| Publication Statement
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Harmondsworth, Eng. ;New York :: Penguin Books,, 1978, ©1959.
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vi, 501 pages :: map ;; 18 cm
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014015065X
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: 9780140150650
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| Notes
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The Viking Portable Library
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-23).
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| Contents
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Introduction -- A brief reading list -- Map -- Herodotus. From Book I: Lydia -- From Book II: The antiquity of Egypt/The Nile flood/Manners and customs/Origins of the Greek Gods/The truth about the Trojan War/The building of the pyramids -- From Book VII: The Persian War after Marathon -- From Book VIII: The Persian War after Marathon (continued). Thucydides. From Book I: The beginnings -- From Book II: The funeral oration of Pericles/The plague in Athens -- From Book III: The Mitylenian debate/Sedition in Corcyra -- From Book VI: The war in Sicily -- From Book VII: The Sicilian disaster. Xenophon: The Anabasis. From Book I -- From Book II -- From Book III -- From Book IV. Polybius. From Book I: Introduction -- From Book II: Aratus of Sicyon and the Achaean League -- From Book VI: The Roman Constitution.
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Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"-Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.
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Historiography.
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Greece, Historiography.
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Greece, History.
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Greece.
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| Dewey Classification
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938/.007/2022
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DF13.F56 1978
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Herodotus.
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Polybius.
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Thucydides.
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Xenophon.
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Crawley, Richard,1840-1893
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Finley, M. I., (Moses I.),1912-1986
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Rawlinson, George,1812-1902
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Shuckburgh, Evelyn S., (Evelyn Shirley),1843-1906
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Watson, J. S., (John Selby),1804-1884
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The portable Greek historians
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