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Book SynopsisSusan Sorek is a research affiliate at the Open University, UK. Her volume The Jews Against Rome was published by Continuum in 2008.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Early Historians - Greece Fifth and Fourth Century BC; 2. Herodotus, Father of History; 3. Thucydides; 4. Xenophon; 5. Minor Greek Historians; 6. The Roman Republic; 7. Polybius; 8. Caesar; 9. Sallust; 10. Livy; 11. The Imperial period to the fall of Rome; 12. Josephus; 13. Tacitus; 14. Dio Cassius; 15. Ammianus Marcellinus; 16. Early Church Historians; 17. Minor Roman Historians; 18. Biography as History - Suetonius and Plutarch; 19. Men of Letters - the historical value of Cicero and Pliny the Younger; 20. Literature as History; 21. Other Sources; 22. Alexander the Great - a Case Study; 23. Summary and Conclusions.
