Author: Pierre Henri LarcherPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Larcher's notes on Herodotus
Author: Pierre Henri LarcherPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Larcher's notes on Herodotus. Historical and critical remarks on the nine books of the history of Herodotus: with a chronological table: translated from the French
Author: Pierre Henri LarcherPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Larcher's Notes on Herodotus: Melpomene
Author: Pierre Henri LarcherPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Larcher's notes on Herodotus, historical and critical comments on the History of Herodotus. From the Fr
Author: Pierre Henri LarcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Larcher's Notes on Herodotus
Author: Pierre-Henri LarcherPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The Scythians
Author: Barry CunliffePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192551868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south - the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks - and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe. Relations with the Greeks around the shores of the Black Sea were rather different - both communities benefiting from trading with each other. This led to the development of a brilliant art style, often depicting scenes from Scythian mythology and everyday life. It is from the writings of Greeks like the historian Herodotus that we learn of Scythian life: their beliefs, their burial practices, their love of fighting, and their ambivalent attitudes to gender. It is a world that is also brilliantly illuminated by the rich material culture recovered from Scythian burials, from the graves of kings on the Pontic steppe, with their elaborate gold work and vividly coloured fabrics, to the frozen tombs of the Altai mountains, where all the organic material - wooden carvings, carpets, saddles and even tattooed human bodies - is amazingly well preserved. Barry Cunliffe here marshals this vast array of evidence - both archaeological and textual - in a masterful reconstruction of the lost world of the Scythians, allowing them to emerge in all their considerable vigour and splendour for the first time in over two millennia.
The Histories Book 7: Polymnia
Author: HerodotusPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681462966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC (c.484 - 425 BC). He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories-his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced-is a record of his "inquiry", being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information. The Histories, were divided into nine books, named after the nine Muses: the "Muse of History", Clio, representing the first book, then Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope for books 2 to 9, respectively.
Larcher's notes on Herodotus. Historical and critical remarks on the nine books of the history of Herodotus: with a chronological table: translated from the French
Author: Pierre Henri LarcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Manual of Classical Literature
Author: Johann Joachim EschenburgPublisher:
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Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Author: Literary and Historical Society of QuebecPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
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