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... period . According to chronological order the Annals relate facts which were anterior to the Histories . But as the two periods were sharply distinct , the one being the Julian period , the other the Flavian period , Tacitus reversed ...
... period . According to chronological order the Annals relate facts which were anterior to the Histories . But as the two periods were sharply distinct , the one being the Julian period , the other the Flavian period , Tacitus reversed ...
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... periods represented by Adam , Moses , and Christ . He excluded the period before the " fall " as an ideal rather than a historical period . The first period was an epoch of igno- rance , i.e. , savagery . The Mosaic law began the second ...
... periods represented by Adam , Moses , and Christ . He excluded the period before the " fall " as an ideal rather than a historical period . The first period was an epoch of igno- rance , i.e. , savagery . The Mosaic law began the second ...
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... period of Arabian literature extended from ca. 750 to 1000 , but though the writings were in the Arabic language , the literature was no longer exclusively of Arab authorship . In the post- classical period ( 1000-1258 ) it was ...
... period of Arabian literature extended from ca. 750 to 1000 , but though the writings were in the Arabic language , the literature was no longer exclusively of Arab authorship . In the post- classical period ( 1000-1258 ) it was ...
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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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