The Story of Ancient History / / James T. Shotwell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Shotwell, James T.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1939]; ©1939
• Year of Publication: 1939
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Part I: INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER I .Definition and Scope of History --; CHAPTER II. The Interpretation of History --; CHAPTER III. Prehistory; Myth and Legend --; CHAPTER IV. Books and Writing --; CHAPTER V. The Measuring of Time --; CHAPTER VI. Egyptian Annals --; CHAPTER VII. Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian Records --; Part II :JEWISH HISTORY --; CHAPTER VIII. The Old Testament as History --; CHAPTER IX .The Pentateuch --; CHAPTER X. The Remaining Historical Books of the Old Testament --; CHAPTER XI. The Formation of the Canon --; CHAPTER XII. Non-Biblical Literature; Josephus --; Part III: GREEK HISTORY --; CHAPTER XIII: From Homer to Herodotus --; CHAPTER XIV .Herodotus --; CHAPTER XV. Thucydides --; CHAPTER XVI .Rhetoric and Scholarship --; CHAPTER XVII. Polybius --; CHAPTER XVIII. Later Greek Historians --; Part IV :ROMAN HISTORY --; CHAPTER XIX. History at Rome; Oratory and Poetry --; CHAPTER XX. Roman Annalists and Early Historians --; CHAPTER XXI. Varrò, Caesar, and Sallust --; CHAPTER XXII. Livy --; CHAPTER XXIII. Tacitus --; CHAPTER XXIV. From Suetonius to Ammianus Marcellinus --; PART V: CHRISTIANITY AND HISTORY --; CHAPTER XXV. The New Era --; CHAPTER XXVI: Allegory and the Contribution of Origen --; CHAPTER XXVIII. The City of God --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231891370; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/shot92970
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: James T. Shotwell.

Examines the development of how history is studied and interpreted. Includes Jewish, Greek, Roman and Christian views.