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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 ...
After an introduction in which Nietzsche shares his personal motivation for writing the book, the first chapter examines the origin of "history". The animal lives only in the present - with a modest degree of happiness - and is therefore unhistorical. Humans, in contrast, have the ability to remember. This enables them to create culture.
What Is History? is a 1961 non-fiction book by historian E. H. Carr on historiography. It discusses history, facts, the bias of historians, science, morality, individuals and society, and moral judgements in history. The book originated in a series of lectures given by Carr in 1961 at the University of Cambridge.
Commentary on the Book of History, Song edition (宋版尚書正義, sōban shōshoseigi) [94] Each page has 8 lines with 16–21 characters per line with annotation lines consisting of two rows instead of one Southern Song: 8 books bound by fukuro-toji, [nb 2] ink on paper, 28.3 cm × 18.2 cm (11.1 in × 7.2 in)
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 Penguin History of Europe is a popular book series about the history of Europe, published by Penguin Books. [1] The series includes: The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (2011) by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann; The Inheritance of Rome: Europe 400–1000 (2010) by Chris Wickham
However, one modern scholar has described the work of Hecataeus as "a curious false start to history," [10] since despite his critical spirit, he failed to liberate history from myth. Herodotus mentions Hecataeus in his Histories , on one occasion mocking him for his naive genealogy and, on another occasion, quoting Athenian complaints against ...
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 ...