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User Review - thcson - LibraryThingEveryone with an interest in ancient history should read this book. It clearly illustrates how research practice in ancient history differs from that of modern history. A good antidote for naive realists who believe that historians always discover the past 'as it really was'. Read full review
Contents
Progress in Historiography | 1 |
The Ancient Historian and his Sources | 9 |
Documents | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Ancient history: evidence and models A Peregrine book |
| Author | Moses I. Finley |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | Dec 2, 2010 |
| Length | 131 pages |
| Subjects | › › Greece Historiography History History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece History / Ancient / Rome History / Europe / General Research Rome |
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