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... tradition which derives from Ptolemy Lagos , through Arrian , and is honest and well informed ; ( 2 ) the popular tradition , derived from Callisthenes and Cleitarchus and best pre- sented in Diodorus , Book XVII . Its aim was to ...
... tradition which derives from Ptolemy Lagos , through Arrian , and is honest and well informed ; ( 2 ) the popular tradition , derived from Callisthenes and Cleitarchus and best pre- sented in Diodorus , Book XVII . Its aim was to ...
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... Tradition ascribes Acts to St. Luke but some modern critics are skeptical of the Lucan authorship . The Gospels are of very slight historical value , for they were not writ- ten as history but as religious treatises . Moreover , they ...
... Tradition ascribes Acts to St. Luke but some modern critics are skeptical of the Lucan authorship . The Gospels are of very slight historical value , for they were not writ- ten as history but as religious treatises . Moreover , they ...
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... tradition of the see derived from Remigius , the founder of the diocese , was still vigorous , and Henry himself mentions with loving remembrance his " master ' Albinus of Anjou . Henry was made an archdeacon in 1110 , and had twenty ...
... tradition of the see derived from Remigius , the founder of the diocese , was still vigorous , and Henry himself mentions with loving remembrance his " master ' Albinus of Anjou . Henry was made an archdeacon in 1110 , and had twenty ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE ANCIENT ORIENT | 3 |
ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY | 21 |
THE ALEXANDRIAN AND POSTALEXANDRIAN EPOCH | 41 |
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