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The Story of Ancient History
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James T. Shotwell
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Published/Copyright:
1939
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Examines the development of how history is studied and interpreted. Includes Jewish, Greek, Roman and Christian views.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
XI - Part I: INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER I .Definition and Scope of History
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CHAPTER II. The Interpretation of History
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CHAPTER III. Prehistory; Myth and Legend
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CHAPTER IV. Books and Writing
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CHAPTER V. The Measuring of Time
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CHAPTER VI. Egyptian Annals
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CHAPTER VII. Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian Records
88 - Part II :JEWISH HISTORY
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CHAPTER VIII. The Old Testament as History
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CHAPTER IX .The Pentateuch
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CHAPTER X. The Remaining Historical Books of the Old Testament
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CHAPTER XI. The Formation of the Canon
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CHAPTER XII. Non-Biblical Literature; Josephus
142 - Part III: GREEK HISTORY
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CHAPTER XIII: From Homer to Herodotus
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CHAPTER XIV .Herodotus
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CHAPTER XV. Thucydides
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CHAPTER XVI .Rhetoric and Scholarship
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CHAPTER XVII. Polybius
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CHAPTER XVIII. Later Greek Historians
242 - Part IV :ROMAN HISTORY
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CHAPTER XIX. History at Rome; Oratory and Poetry
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CHAPTER XX. Roman Annalists and Early Historians
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CHAPTER XXI. Varrò, Caesar, and Sallust
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CHAPTER XXII. Livy
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CHAPTER XXIII. Tacitus
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CHAPTER XXIV. From Suetonius to Ammianus Marcellinus
316 - PART V: CHRISTIANITY AND HISTORY
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CHAPTER XXV. The New Era
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CHAPTER XXVI: Allegory and the Contribution of Origen
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CHAPTER XXVI: Allegory and the Contribution of Origen
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CHAPTER XXVIII. The City of God
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INDEX
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