Author: John DilleryPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472052276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
A discussion of the first written histories of Babylon and Egypt
Clio's Other Sons
Author: John DilleryPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472052276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
A discussion of the first written histories of Babylon and Egypt
Clio's Children
Author: John AllmanPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209359
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Poems portray scenes from the lives of historical figures such as Frederick Douglass, Marie Curie, Ezra Pound, and Emma Goldman.
Man: Whence, how and Whither
Author: Annie BesantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clairvoyance
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Clio's Other Sons
Author: John D DilleryPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047212045X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Soon after the death of Alexander the Great, the priest Berossus wrote the first known narrative and comprehensive history of his native Babylon, and the priest Manetho likewise wrote the first such history of his native Egyptian civilization. Nothing like these histories had been produced before in these cultures. Clio’s Other Sons considers why that is: why were these histories written at this point, and for what purposes? Berossus and Manetho operated at the crossings of several political, social, and intellectual worlds. They were members of native elites under the domination of Macedonian overlords; in their writings we can see suggestions that they collaborated in the foreign rule of their lands, but at the same time we see them advocating for their cultures. Their histories were written in Greek and betray active engagement with Greek historical writing, but at the same time these texts are clearly composed from native records, are organized along lines determined by local systems of time-reckoning, and articulate views that are deeply informed by regional scholarly and wisdom traditions. In this volume John Dillery charts the interactions of all these features of these historians. An afterword considers Demetrius, the approximate contemporary of Berossus and Manetho in time, if not in culture. While his associates wrote new histories, Demetrius’ project was a rewriting of an existing text, the Bible. This historiographical “corrective” approach sheds light on the novel historiography of Manetho and Berossus.
Spink & Son's Monthly Numismatic Circular
Author: A History of Marlboro County
Author: John Alexander William ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marlboro County (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
History of Genesee County, Michigan, Her People, Industries and Institutions,
Author: Edwin Orin WoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flint (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
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Author: Anatole France