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Reveals the extent to which Greek, Persian, and Jewish historians influenced the Western historiographic tradition, and then goes on to examine the emergence of national history. The author discusses the place of Tacitus in historical thought, and explores the way in which ecclesiastical historiography has developed a tradition of its own.

Table of Contents
Foreword by Riccardo Di Donato
Bibliographical Note
Introduction

CHAPTER I Persian Historiography, Greek
Historiography, and Jewish
Historiography

CHAPTER 2 The Herodotean and the Thucydidean
Tradition

CHAPTER 3 The Rise of Antiquarian Research

CHAPTER 4 Fabius Pictor and the Origins of National
History

CHAPTER 5 Tacitus and the Tacitist Tradition

CHAPTER 6 The Origins of Ecclesiastical
Historiography

Conclusion
Index of Names

The Classical Foundations of Modern

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 30/11/1992
      ISBN13: 9780520078703, 978-0520078703
      ISBN10: 0520078705
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reveals the extent to which Greek, Persian, and Jewish historians influenced the Western historiographic tradition, and then goes on to examine the emergence of national history. The author discusses the place of Tacitus in historical thought, and explores the way in which ecclesiastical historiography has developed a tradition of its own.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword by Riccardo Di Donato
      Bibliographical Note
      Introduction

      CHAPTER I Persian Historiography, Greek
      Historiography, and Jewish
      Historiography

      CHAPTER 2 The Herodotean and the Thucydidean
      Tradition

      CHAPTER 3 The Rise of Antiquarian Research

      CHAPTER 4 Fabius Pictor and the Origins of National
      History

      CHAPTER 5 Tacitus and the Tacitist Tradition

      CHAPTER 6 The Origins of Ecclesiastical
      Historiography

      Conclusion
      Index of Names

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