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Herodotus and Sima Qian: The First Great Historians of Greece and China: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
Thomas R. Martin
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| #128927 in Books | 2009-09-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.16 x.36 x5.53l,.45 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent introduction to important ancient literature|By Eric "Siggy" Scott|Martin's introduction to the two fathers of history writing is short (taking 30 of the 153 pages), but excellently written. He casts both Herodotus and Sima Qian as being faced with the complexity inherent to writing history when oral accounts differ widely, and as showing us how they had to balance t|About the Author|Thomas R. Martin (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Jeremiah O Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece (1985) and Ancient Greece (2000), and
In this accessible volume, Thomas R. Martin compares the writings of Herodotus in ancient Greece with those of Sima Qian in ancient China to demonstrate the hallmarks of early history writing. While these authors lived in different centuries and were not aware of each other’s works, Martin shows the similar struggles that each grappled with in preparing their historical accounts and how their efforts helped invent modern notions of history writing and the...
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