The Histories - Brossura

Selincourt, Aubrey; Marincola, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140446389 ISBN 13: 9780140446388

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1996

Riassunto

During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mighty Persian army. While the story of this heroic drama forms the main theme of Herodotus' narrative, the author's curiosity fleshes out the text with digressions, folk tales and stories.

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L'autore:

John Marincola was born in Philadelphia in 1954, and was educated at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University. He has taught at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, and at Union College in New York, and is currently an Associate Professor of Classics at New York University. From 1997 to 1999 he was Executive Director of the American Philological Association, and in 1999-2000 he was a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (Cambridge, 1997), Greek Historians (Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 31, Oxford, 2001), and of several articles on the Greek and Roman historians.

Product Description:

Book by Herodotus John M Marincola Aubrey De Selincourt

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140446389
• ISBN 13: 9780140446388
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 688