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Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She unco
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2007 — A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrativ
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What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts th