Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Birth of HistoryCondition: NewFormat: HardbackSubtitle: From the Third Millennium to HerodotosEAN: 9789042946569ISBN: 9789042946569Publisher: Peeters PublishersRelease Date: 10/20/2022Description: One of the not frequently mentioned characteristics of us as humans is both an interest in the past and a desire to leave records of our own time, place or selves. This is not necessarily, however, the same thing as ‘history’, which has a very clear meaning, namely ‘enquiry’. The very essence of history is the asking of questions and the search for answers to them. These questions concern especially causation (why?), or responsibility (who?). This book is a bold attempt to survey narratives from the beginning of written records in Egypt and Mesopotamia through the major pre-classical cultures down to Herodotos, whom Cicero named ‘The Father of History’, to test the accuracy of that epithet, against a current fashion of denigration of the Greek’s achievement. The fascinating pre-classical cultures, usually neglected by classicists, were certainly interested in the past and recording the present, but never asked questions about them. The narrative was already fixed, governed overwhelmingly by divine control and designed usually to glorify the ruler in question. An entirely new world is revealed by Herodotos, who never stopped asking questions. History was born.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: BEGenre: HistoryTopic: Ancient HistoryBook Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia AnalectaISBN-10: 9042946563Item Length: 19mmItem Height: 254mmType: Ancient CivilizationsAuthor: R.T. RidleyRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Birth of History
Title: The Birth of History
Subtitle: From the Third Millennium to Herodotos
EAN: 9789042946569
ISBN: 9789042946569
Release Date: 10/20/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: BE
Genre: History
Topic: Ancient History
ISBN-10: 9042946563
Item Length: 19mm
Item Height: 254mm
Number of Pages: 197 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Birth of History : from the Third Millennium to Herodotos
Publisher: Peeters Publishers & Booksellers
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Ancient / General
Item Weight: 17.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: History
Author: Ronald T. Ridley
Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta Ser.
Format: Hardcover
