A crucial aspect of the intellectual field shaped by religious relations and conflicts following the Reformation was the domain of historiography, which involved the writing of works that aimed at edification and at the support of the doctrinal stances of opposing ideological factions. Thi...
Greek Inscriptions as Historical Writing 好养活 (Manners) Few Greek inscriptions are preserved complete and easy to read. Much labour goes into deciphering the letters and conjecturing restorations to fill in what is no longer preserved at all. Such efforts encourage overvaluing what is said, ...
其翻译的其他古希腊学者的著作还有:Diophantus of Alexandria: a Study in the History of Greek Algebra(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1885)Apollonius of Perga:Treatise on Conic Sections(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896)Archimedes:Works(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897)The thirte...
History, discipline that studies the chronological record of events, usually attempting, on the basis of a critical examination of source materials, to explain events. For the principal treatment of the writing of history, and the scholarly research asso
9.(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a narrative relating the events of a character's life:the history of Joseph Andrews. Abbreviation (for senses 1–3):hist [C15: from Latinhistoria,from Greek: enquiry, fromhistoreinto narrate, fromhistōrjudge] ...
None of this is to say that history writing has assumed a perfect or completed form. It will never do so: examination of its past reveals remarkable changes in historicalconsciousnessrather than steady progress toward the standards of research and writing that represent the best that historians can...
Grant Hardy is Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He has a B.A. in Ancient Greek from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D in Chinese Language and Literature from Yale. 展开
Greek historian is considered within the Western tradition to be the "father of history"‚ and‚ along with his contemporary Thucydides‚ helped form the foundations for the modern study of human history. Their work continues to be read today and the divide between the culture-focused ...
Learn about the history of the alphabet and Greek writing. Review the evolution of the alphabet from cuneiform writing to the Ancient Greek writing...
It's a golden age for historical writing, as well-researched and sometimes quite specialist books by historians are written in an engaging style for a broad audience. Finding an enthusiastic audience among readers then encourages publishers to publish more of the same, in what will hopefully be ...