Herodotus and Sima Qian the first great historians of Greece and China ; a brief history with documents
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 tha...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Basingstoke u.a.
Palgrave Macmillan
2010
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | The Bedford series in history and culture
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Herodotus
> Sima, Qian / ca. 145-ca. 86 B.C.
> Sima, Qian
> History, Ancient / Historiography
> Historiography / Greece
> Historiography / China
> Historians / Greece
> Historians / China
> History, Ancient / Historiography / Sources
> Historiography / Greece / Sources
> Historiography / China / Sources
> Griechenland
> Quelle
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 job of the historian. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Part One; Introduction: Inventing history writing in Greece and China -- Part Two; The Documents -- Herodotus, the histories: 1. How Asia and Europe became enemies: the story of Croesus -- 2. How others live: the customs of the Persians, Egyptians, Massagetai, and Scythians -- 3. Roping Asia to Europe: the Persian invasion of Greece -- 4. Death before dishonor: the battle of Thermopylae and the story of the Three Hundred -- 5. Human wisdom and divine vengeance: Artemisia's advice and Hermotimus's Revenge -- 6. Ending stories: cruelty and Revenge on Both sides -- Sima Qian, the records of the historian: 7. Castration as the price of writing history: Sima Qian's autobiographical letter to Ren An -- 8. The first emperor of China: the basic annals of the Qin Dynasty -- 9. Born from a dragon: the origins of gaozu, founder of the Han Dynasty -- 10. A women in power: Empress Lu -- 11. Heroic Hermits: The biographies of Bo Yi and Shu Qi -- 12. Arts of war: The biographies of Sun Wu and Sun Bin -- 13. Imperial assassin: the biography of Jing Ke -- 14. How others live: The customs of the Xiongnu |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 153 S. Ktn. 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780312416492 978-0-312-41649-2 |