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... historian . He industriously collected texts and exhausted the best sources . His deficiency in critical faculty and his proneness to rhetorical exaggeration were weaknesses common to every Greek historian except Thucydides , Xenophon ...
... historian . He industriously collected texts and exhausted the best sources . His deficiency in critical faculty and his proneness to rhetorical exaggeration were weaknesses common to every Greek historian except Thucydides , Xenophon ...
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... historian of the second century worthy of the name was Fronto ( ca. 100-170 A.D . ) , 2 a native of Africa , a rhetorician and an advocate , friend of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and tutor of Marcus Aurelius . Fragments of his De bello ...
... historian of the second century worthy of the name was Fronto ( ca. 100-170 A.D . ) , 2 a native of Africa , a rhetorician and an advocate , friend of the Emperor Antoninus Pius and tutor of Marcus Aurelius . Fragments of his De bello ...
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... historian . But the field is now broadened . He no longer writes as the historian of a city , looking out upon the affairs of Italy only as they bear upon the history of his native Florence . He had now become the historian of Italy ...
... historian . But the field is now broadened . He no longer writes as the historian of a city , looking out upon the affairs of Italy only as they bear upon the history of his native Florence . He had now become the historian of Italy ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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