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... Greeks this development came late . Plato was convinced of the recency of all recorded Greek history , and modern scholarship has sustained him in that opinion . Historical records of the Greek world do not go back to a distant period ...
... Greeks this development came late . Plato was convinced of the recency of all recorded Greek history , and modern scholarship has sustained him in that opinion . Historical records of the Greek world do not go back to a distant period ...
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... Greek literature the prevailing purpose of Greek historians re- mained constant - to give information . The Greeks first learned the art of writing real history , and perceived its purposes , its duties , its laws . The Greeks were the ...
... Greek literature the prevailing purpose of Greek historians re- mained constant - to give information . The Greeks first learned the art of writing real history , and perceived its purposes , its duties , its laws . The Greeks were the ...
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... Greek historian who wrote under Roman sway . He is the earliest of a long series of historians of Greek blood , Greek culture , and the Greek language who lived in the last days of the Republic or during the Empire . In them we see the ...
... Greek historian who wrote under Roman sway . He is the earliest of a long series of historians of Greek blood , Greek culture , and the Greek language who lived in the last days of the Republic or during the Empire . In them we see the ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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