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Sources for ancient history / edited by Michael Crawford ; with contributions from Emilio Gabba, Fergus Millar, Anthony Snodgrass.

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: The Sources of history, studies in the uses of historical evidencePublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1983.Description: xi, 238 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

0521247829 (hbk.)
0521289580

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DDC classification:

938.0072

Contents:

Introduction/ Michael Crawford -- 1. Literature/ Emilio Gabba -- 2. Epigraphy/ Fergus Millar -- Archaeology/ Anthony Snodgrass -- Numismatics/ Michael Crawford.

Summary: "If a scholar wishes to create a picture of a modern society in all its aspects, there is little of what he needs to know that he cannot know, although there may still be much that he cannot understand. For the history of Greece and Rome, there is a great deal which is simply unknowable. From the end of the archaic age of Greece, there is an unbroken sequence of works by Greek, and later, Roman historians down to the end of antiquity. But their vision and range of interest were often limited and much of what they did produce has been lost. Some help may be derived from the documentary material produced in antiquity, material which was the product of officials organising public activities, or heads of families organising their affairs, or individuals leaving their mark on the world. Beyond this, the evidence of archaeology and numismatics may also be helpful. The four essays in this book set out to characterise the nature of the ancient literary tradition, the inscriptional material, the archaeological and numismatic evidence and to explain how an for what purposes they may be used."-- Provided by the publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	938.0072 SOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000009643

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction/ Michael Crawford -- 1. Literature/ Emilio Gabba -- 2. Epigraphy/ Fergus Millar -- Archaeology/ Anthony Snodgrass -- Numismatics/ Michael Crawford.

"If a scholar wishes to create a picture of a modern society in all its aspects, there is little of what he needs to know that he cannot know, although there may still be much that he cannot understand. For the history of Greece and Rome, there is a great deal which is simply unknowable.
From the end of the archaic age of Greece, there is an unbroken sequence of works by Greek, and later, Roman historians down to the end of antiquity. But their vision and range of interest were often limited and much of what they did produce has been lost. Some help may be derived from the documentary material produced in antiquity, material which was the product of officials organising public activities, or heads of families organising their affairs, or individuals leaving their mark on the world. Beyond this, the evidence of archaeology and numismatics may also be helpful.
The four essays in this book set out to characterise the nature of the ancient literary tradition, the inscriptional material, the archaeological and numismatic evidence and to explain how an for what purposes they may be used."-- Provided by the publisher.