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Hellenica
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ISBN: 0674990986 9780674990982 0674990994 9780674990999 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Annotation Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this 'March Up-Country' (Anabasis); but meanwhile he entered service under the Spartans against the Persian king, married happily, and joined the staff of the Spartan king, Agesilaus. But Athens was at war with Sparta in 394 and so exiled Xenophon. The Spartans gave him an estate near Elis where he lived for years writing and hunting and educating his sons. Reconciled to Sparta, Athens restored Xenophon to honour but he preferred to retire to Corinth. Xenophon's Anabasis is a true story of remarkable adventures. Hellenica, a history of Greek affairs from 411 to 362, begins as a continuation of Thucydides' account. There are four works on Socrates (collected in Volume IV of the Loeb Xenophon edition). In Memorabilia Xenophon adds to Plato's picture of Socrates from a different viewpoint. The Apology is an interesting complement to Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial. Xenophon's Symposium portrays a dinner party at which Socrates speaks of love; and Oeconomicus has him giving advice on household management and married life. Cyropaedia, a historical romance on the education of Cyrus (the Elder), reflects Xenophon's ideas about rulers and government; the Loeb edition is in two volumes. We also have his Hiero, a dialogue on government; Agesilaus, in praise of that king; Constitution of Lacedaemon (on the Spartan system); Ways and Means (on the finances of Athens); Manual for a Cavalry Commander; a good manual of Horsemanship; and a lively Hunting with Hounds. The Constitution of the Athenians, though clearly not by Xenophon, is an interesting document on politics at Athens. These eight books are collected in the last of the seven volumes of the Loeb Classical Library edition of Xenophon.


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Historiographia antiqua : commentationes Lovanienses in honorem W. Peremans septuagenarii editae.
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ISBN: 9061860628 9789061860624 Year: 1977 Volume: 6 Publisher: Leuven Leuven university press

Vereinte Suche nach JHWH : die hiskianische und josianische Reform in der Chronik.
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ISBN: 3110184516 9783110184518 3110927470 Year: 2005 Volume: 355 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter

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Die chronistische Darstellung der Kultreform der Könige von Juda, Hiskia und Josia, als Antwort auf den Untergang des Nordreiches.


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Acts and the history of earliest christianity.
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ISBN: 0800606302 Year: 1980 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.) Fortress

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Historiographie de la réforme.
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ISBN: 2603001159 9782603001158 Year: 1977 Publisher: Paris Delachaux et Niestlé

The histories ; The annals.
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ISBN: 0674990390 0674991230 0674992741 0674993454 0674993551 9780674991231 Year: 2006 Volume: 35, 111, 249, 31 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard university press

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Tacitus (c. 55-c. 120 CE), renowned for concision and psychology, is paramount as a historian of the early Roman empire. What survives of Histories covers the dramatic years 69-70. What survives of Annals tells an often terrible tale of 14-28, 31-37, and, partially, 47-66.


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The histories
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ISBN: 9780674996588 0674996585 9780674996373 9780674996380 9780674996595 9780674996601 9780674996618 0674996372 0674996380 0674996615 0674996607 0674996593 Year: 2012 Volume: 128,137,138,159,160,161 1-6 Publisher: Cambridge, MA ; London Harvard University Press

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Polybius's theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history covers the years 264-146 bc, describing the rise of Rome, the destruction of Carthage, and the eventual domination of the Greek world. It is a vital achievement despite the incomplete survival of all but the first five of forty books.

Appian's Roman history
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ISBN: 0674990048 9780674990029 0674990021 9780674990050 0674990056 9780674990067 0674990064 9780674990043 9780674997301 9780674997318 0674997301 9780674997295 9780674996489 9780674996472 067499647X 0674997263 067499731X 9780674997264 0674997298 0674996488 Year: 2020 Volume: 2-5 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) Harvard university press

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"Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction of Carthage. Born circa AD 95, Appian was an Alexandrian official at ease in the highest political and literary circles who later became a Roman citizen and advocate. He died during the reign of Antoninus Pius (emperor 138-161). Appian's theme is the process by which the Roman Empire achieved its contemporary prosperity, and his unique method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation's wars with Rome up through her own civil wars. Although this triumph of "harmony and monarchy" was achieved through characteristic Roman virtues, Appian is unusually objective about Rome's shortcomings along the way. Of the work's original 24 books, only the Preface and Books 6-9 and 11-17 are preserved complete or nearly so: those on the Spanish, Hannibalic, African, Illyrian, Syrian, and Mithridatic wars, and five books on the civil wars."-- Publisher's website.

Church history: an introduction to research, reference works, and methods
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ISBN: 0802808263 9780802808264 Year: 1995 Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. Eerdmans


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Historiografie : vijfentwintig eeuwen geschiedschrijving van West-Europa.
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ISBN: 9061863619 9023225368 9789061863618 Year: 1990 Volume: 8 Publisher: Leuven Universitaire pers Leuven

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