Writing Ancient History

by Neville Morley

Book Overview

How do ancient historians pursue their craft? From the evidence of coins, pottery shards, remains of buildings, works of art, and, above all, literary texts--all of which have survived more or less accidentally from antiquity--they fashion works of history. But how exactly do they go about reconstructing and representing the past? How should history be written? These and related questions are the subject of Neville Morley's engaging introduction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486335
• ISBN13: 9780801486333
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Dusting The Historian's Bookshelf

Though the title might be a bit misleading its message is certainly not: History (especially ancient history) Must Change or Die! Prof. Morley gives in this little volume a terse argument of how "Professional" Historians with their boring colorless prose and assertion that only they know what they are doing shouldn't hold the monopoly in the search for facts and their interpratation. A probing and entertaining analysis of the current state of Historiography.