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Essays on ancient history : a selection of articles and reviews / Chester G. Starr ; edited by Arther Ferrill and Thomas Kelly.

By: Starr, Chester G, 1914-Contributor(s): Ferrill, Arther | Kelly, Thomas, 1929-Material type: TextTextLanguage: engita Publication details: Leiden : Brill, 1979. Description: xii, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9004058281Subject(s): History, AncientLOC classification: D60 | .S720
Contents:
Introduction ; Bibliography of Chester G. Starr ; 1. GENERAL. Reflections upon the Problem of Generalization ; Historical and Philosophical Time ; An Overdose of Slavery ; The Ancient Warship ; Review of V.R.d'A. Desborough, The Greek Dark Ages. GREEK HISTORY. The Myth of the Minoan Thalassocracy ; Homeric Cowards and Heroes ; La storia greca arcaica ; The Early Greek City State ; The Decline of the Early Greek Kings ; The Credibility of Early Spartan History ; Review of G.L. Huxley, Early Sparta ; Ideas of Truth in Early Greece ; Pindar and the Greek Historical Spirit ; The Awakening of the Greek Historical Spirit and Early Greek Coinage ; Why did the Greeks Defeat the Persians? ; Rhodes and Pergamum, 201-200 B.C. ROME. The Roman Place in History ; How did Augustus Stop the Roman Revolution? ; Virgil's Acceptance of Octavian ; Horace and Augustus ; Epictetus and the Tyrant ; The Roman Emperor and the King of Ceylon ; The Perfect Democracy of the Roman Empire ; Naval Activity in Greek Imperial Issues ; Review of D. Kienast, Untersuchungen zu den Kriegsflotten der römischen Kaiserzeit ; Aurelius Victor, Historian of Empire ; The History of the Roman Empire, 1911-1960 ; Index.
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English and Italian.

"Bibliography of Chester G. Starr": p. 1-12.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction ; Bibliography of Chester G. Starr ; 1. GENERAL. Reflections upon the Problem of Generalization ; Historical and Philosophical Time ; An Overdose of Slavery ; The Ancient Warship ; Review of V.R.d'A. Desborough, The Greek Dark Ages. GREEK HISTORY. The Myth of the Minoan Thalassocracy ; Homeric Cowards and Heroes ; La storia greca arcaica ; The Early Greek City State ; The Decline of the Early Greek Kings ; The Credibility of Early Spartan History ; Review of G.L. Huxley, Early Sparta ; Ideas of Truth in Early Greece ; Pindar and the Greek Historical Spirit ; The Awakening of the Greek Historical Spirit and Early Greek Coinage ; Why did the Greeks Defeat the Persians? ; Rhodes and Pergamum, 201-200 B.C. ROME. The Roman Place in History ; How did Augustus Stop the Roman Revolution? ; Virgil's Acceptance of Octavian ; Horace and Augustus ; Epictetus and the Tyrant ; The Roman Emperor and the King of Ceylon ; The Perfect Democracy of the Roman Empire ; Naval Activity in Greek Imperial Issues ; Review of D. Kienast, Untersuchungen zu den Kriegsflotten der römischen Kaiserzeit ; Aurelius Victor, Historian of Empire ; The History of the Roman Empire, 1911-1960 ; Index.