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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Arnaldo Momigliano |
| ISBN: | 0819550108 9780819550101 |
| OCLC Number: | 2970847 |
| Description: | 387 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | A Piedmontese view of the history of ideas -- The fault of the Greeks -- Eastern elements in post-exilic Jewish, and Greek, historiography -- Athens in the third century B.C. and the discovery of Rome in the histories of Timaeus of Tauromenium -- The historian's skin -- Polybius' reappearance in Western Europe -- Did Fabius Pictor lie? -- Pagan and Christian historiography in the fourth century A.D. -- The lonely historian Ammianus Marcellinus -- Popular religious beliefs and the late Roman historians -- Tradition and the classical historian -- Time in ancient historiography -- The first political commentary on Tacitus -- Perizonius, Niebuhr and the character of early Roman tradition -- Vico's Scienza nuova: Roman 'bestioni' and Roman 'eroi' -- Mabillon's Italian disciples -- Introduction to the Griechische kulturgeschichte by Jacob Burckhardt -- J.G. Droysen between Greeks and Jews -- The ancient city of Fustel de Coulanges -- Reconsidering B. Croce (1866-1952) -- Historicism revisited. |
| Responsibility: | Arnaldo Momigliano. |
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