Historical Writing in Rome -II
CARNELLIUS TACITUS: He was a greatest and last historian of the classical age of Romans. He began his career
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Historical Writing in Rome – I
HISTORICAL WRITING IN ROME: Rome did not have a glorious past, hence its records were little and humble. Its
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CHARACTER OF GREEK HISTRIOGRAPHY
Prominent ancient Greek historians were Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius. After them few of them continued with Greek tradition. Posidonius wrote
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The other Ancient Greek Historians
XENOPHON: He was a soldier and historian. His work is Memorabilia. It preserves the recollections of his master Socrates,
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Greek Historian Thucydides
He was a noted historian of ancient Greece. He wrote “History of Peloponnesian War”. He was born in about 460
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‘HERODOTUS’ – FATHER OF HISTORY:
He was born at Halicarnassus, a Dorian settlement in Asia Minor in 480 BC. He studied the epics of
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HISTORICAL WRITING OF ANCIENT PEROID
ANCIENT GREECE: Ancient Greece could not produce history due to politics and conflicts. Greece was a meeting place of