Univ of Oklahoma Pr, Date: 1985-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1985. Univ of Oklahoma Pr ISBN 0806119284 9780806119281 [US]

ISBN10: 0806119284, ISBN13: 9780806119281, [publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.65
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1985]

ISBN10: 0806119284, ISBN13: 9780806119281, [publisher: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Norman] Hardcover 194 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A very good and clean copy. - The work of Herodotos of Halikarnassos, 'the father of history,' differs in many ways from that of modern historians, and it poses special problems to the student. For the first time in fifty years, K. H. Waters offers in this book a comprehensive introduction to Herodotos' background, aims, and methods; a portrait of the historian and his oeuvre seen whole. Herodotos' history of the Persian Wars, written in the second half of the fifth century B.C., was both the first attempt at a comprehensive secular history and the first lengthy prose narrative in the Western world. Its literary parentage was, on the one side, the Homeric poems with their legendary subject matter and, on the other, the prose tracts of Greece's New Learning, which were the products of the rising interest in all knowledge and rational inquiry. There was an almost total lack of written historical evidence in Greece, and the intelligentsia were ignorant of foreign languages such as Persian and Egyptian. The audiences who paid to hear Herodotos' lectures also expected historical dramatizations and enjoyed descriptive material and anecdotes that today would be relegated to notes. By uniting such disparate ...
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University of Oklahoma Press, Date: 1985-01. Hardcover. Good. 1985. University of Oklahoma Press ISBN 0806119284 9780806119281 [US]

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[Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1985]

ISBN10: 0806119284, ISBN13: 9780806119281, [publisher: University of Oklahoma Press] Hardcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.75
[AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1985]

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University of Oklahoma Press, Date: 1985-02-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0.7000 in x 8.6000 in x 5.5000 in. Nloticeable wear, but still very usable. Ex-library with usual distinguishments (stamps, stickers, etc.) 1985. University of Oklahoma Press ISBN 0806119284 9780806119281 [US]

University of Oklahoma Press 1985 Hardcover Good Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.