LIBROS DEL AUTOR: wwhow

2 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: wwhow

  • A History of Rome to the Death of Caesar
    H. D. Leigh / HDLeigh / W. W. How / WWHow
    The legends told by Roman chroniclers about the founding and the early history of the city cannot be regarded as sober narratives of real events. They rest on the insecure basis of oral tradition alone, for the written records perished at the sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 B.C. Nor are the traditions in themselves so probable as to inspire belief. They give us, indeed, admira...
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  • A Commentary on Herodotus
    J. Wells / JWells / W. W. How / WWHow
    Herodotus has been called by Cicero and other ancient critics `the father of history’. He was in fact the first to make the events of the past the subject of research and verification (historie) and then relate their consequences to the present. The main subject of his Histories is the struggle between Persia and Greece from the time of Croesus to that of Xerxes; added to this ...
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    118,36 €