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: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, is a 1998 book [1] by Classics scholars Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Reviewing Who Killed Homer? for Foreign Affairs , Francis Fukuyama described it as "ostensibly" focused on the decline of classical studies, but "really about the loss of a common ...
History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') [1] is the systematic study and documentation of the human past. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyse past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and ...
The APA was inaugurated by William D. Whitney, of Yale, at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1869 as an outgrowth of the Classical Section of the Oriental Society. [2] Of the 151 inaugural members, just 8 were women, including Alice Robinson Boise Wood, the first woman to study (informally) at the University of Michigan and to graduate with a B.A. from the Old University of Chicago. [3]
(with J. M. Hammond) Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War: translated with an introduction and notes, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Thucydides: History, Book 1, Aris & Philips, 2014. Edited (with L. G. Mitchell) The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece, 1997. D. M. Lewis's Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History, 1997.
Michael Grant CBE (21 November 1914 – 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history. [1] His 1956 translation of Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome remains a standard of the work.
L'Année philologique (The Philological Year) is an index to scholarly work in fields related to the language, literature, history and culture of Ancient Greece and Rome. [1] It is the standard bibliographical tool for research in classical studies . [ 2 ]
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Bruni's most notable work is Historiarum Florentini populi libri XII (History of the Florentine People, 12 Books), which has been called the first modern history book. [2] While it probably was not Bruni's intention to secularize history, the three period view of history is unquestionably secular and so Bruni has been called the first modern ...