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Sto caricando le informazioni... Herodotus: The Father of Historydi Elizabeth Vandiver
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I stalled on this over and over again, somewhere in the first lecture, and then suddenly, I was launched. It has been fascinating. It turns out that I must have read about twenty children's histories and historical novels about the Persian Wars, but these books historicized the wars, while Herodotus mythologized them. The lectures are quite easy and approachable. I would happily try something else by Vandiver. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieThe Great Courses (2353) Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiThe Great Courses (2353)
Witness the "works and wonders" of the ancient world through the eyes of its first great historian in this sparkling series of 24 lectures from a much-honored teacher and classical scholar. Herodotus (c. 484-420 B.C.E.) was a Greek who was born in what is now the modern Turkish resort town of Bodrum and who died, so tradition says, in the south of Italy. In between, his tirelessly inquiring mind took him from one corner of the known world to another. And he reported on or visited all of its continents (Europe, Asia, and Africa) to write about the vast array of subjects that captured his interest. These included the "great works" of the ancient land of Egypt; the remarkable kings who built the vast Persian Empire; and the strange customs and unlikely origins of the Scythians, a warlike, mounted people who lived beyond the Danube and whose repulse of Darius and the Persians in 513 B.C.E. made them the first Europeans to throw back an eastern invasion. The book that emerged from these "inquiries" - The Histories - is Herodotus's only known work, yet it still made Herodotus one of the rare, landmark figures in the story of thought. In these lectures, Professor Vandiver introduces you to Herodotus and The Histories, tracing the influences he assimilated and the new methods he used in crafting this monumental work. You learn how that work looked at the past in new and fresh ways, seeing it not as a distant recess shrouded in legend and rumor, but as something that lies close at hand; as something that immediately affects the here and now, and as a subject whose great personalities and patterns of events can be studied in order to make the reasons behind them as clear as possible. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)938.03History and Geography Ancient World Greece to 323 Greece to 323 Persian Wars; Union of Greece (500-479 BC)Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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