Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World

Bok av Kurt A. Raaflaub
Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which ancient civilizations thought about the past and recorded their own histories. * Written by an international group of scholars working in many disciplines * Truly cross-cultural, covering historical thinking and writing in ancient or early cultures across in East, South, and West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas * Includes historiography shaped by religious perspectives, including Judaism, early Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism