The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780801801853 (0801801850)
Publish date: October 1st 1967
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages no: 245
Edition language: English
This book is an important corrective to Bury, who (though himself an ancient historian) missed much of the relevant evidence from Antiquity. The idea of progress first appears, in fact, in Xenophanes fr. 18, and was well-known to the Sophists and in the Hellenistic period. Edelstein, who was at Ho...
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