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Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book
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Rhetoric in Classical Historiography
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Pages: 251
Authors: A.J. Woodman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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Professor Woodman's radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical times. A thought-provoking d
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This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust: it reads his works as complex and engaged contributions to the intellectual life of his pe
Writing Ancient History
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Authors: Luke Pitcher
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'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is