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Herodotus and Sima Qian: The First Great Historians of Greece and China: A Brief History with Documents

Thomas R. Martin

Comparing the writings of Herodotus in ancient Greece with those of Sima Qian in ancient China, Herodotus and Sima Qian: The First Great Historians of Greece and China highlights how their efforts helped invent modern notions of history writing and the job of the historian.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Bedford Books
  • Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2009
  • Pages: 162
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 0.40in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9780312416492
  • Categories: HistoriographyAncient - GreeceAsia - China

About the Author

Thomas R. Martin (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Jeremiah O'Connor Professor in Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Sovereignty and Coinage in Classical Greece (1985) and Ancient Greece (2000), and he is a co-author of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (2009). He is also one of the originators of Perseus: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece (www.perseus.tufts.edu).