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Author:   Andrew Feldherr (Professor of Classics, Princeton University) ,  Grant Hardy (Professor of History and Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina at Asheville)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.022kg
ISBN:  

9780198737803

ISBN 10:   0198737807
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   13 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Piotr Michalowski: Early Mesopotamia 2: Mario Liverani: Later Mesopotamia 3: John Baines: Ancient Egypt 4: John Van Seters: Historiography in Ancient Israel 5: Robin Osborne: Greek Inscriptions as Historical Writing 6: Deborah Boedeker: Early Greek Poetry as/and History 7: Jonas Grethlein: The Rise of Greek Historiography and the Invention of Prose 8: John Dillery: Hellenistic Historiography 9: Jonathan J. Price: Josephus 10: Alison E. Cooley: History and Inscriptions, Rome 11: Uwe Walter: Annales and Analysis 12: Ellen O'Gorman: Imperial History and Biography at Rome 13: David S. Potter: The Greek Historians of Imperial Rome 14: Michael Whitby: Imperial Christian Historiography 15: Edward L. Shaughnessy: History and Inscriptions (China) 16: David Schaberg: Chinese History and Philosophy 17: Wai-yee Li: Pre-Qin Annals 18: Mark Edward Lewis: Historiography and Empire 19: William H. Nienhauser, Jr.: Sima Qian and the Shiji 20: Steven W. Durrant: The Han Histories 21: Albert E. Dien: Historiography of the Six Dynasties Period (220-581) 22: John Kieschnick: Buddhism: Biographies of Buddhist Monks 23: Romila Thapar: Historical Traditions in Early India: c.1000 BC to c. AD 600 24: Romila Thapar: Inscriptions as Historical Writing in Early India: Third Century BC to Sixth Century AD 25: G. E. R. Lloyd: Epilogue

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unrolls the great map of mankind, displaying the historical consciousness of the human race in all its varieties. Jonathan Clark, Time Literary Supplement

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Andrew Feldherr received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1991 and is currently Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His research focuses on Latin literature, primarily historiography and the poetry of the late republic and early empire. Grant Hardy is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He has a B.A. in Ancient Greek from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D in Chinese Language and Literature from Yale.

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