REVIEW to: John Marincola, On Writing History. From Herodotus to Herodian, translated with an Introduction and Notes by J. M., London: Penguin Books, Penguin Random House UK, 2017, pp. LXXI + 600. (ISBN 9780141393575)

REVIEW to: John Marincola, On Writing History. From Herodotus to Herodian, translated with an Introduction and Notes by J. M., London: Penguin Books, Penguin Random House UK, 2017, pp. LXXI + 600. (ISBN 9780141393575)

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As is known, antiquity has left us only one theoretical text on historiography, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit by Lucianus of Samosata, which invertatop squeeze bottle goes alongside the programmatic and methodical declarations of historians and the critical observations of rhetoric, such as Cicero and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, or philosophers, like Aristotle.John Marincola, one of the greatest contemporary scholars of ancient historiography, proposes in this volume a selection of the most important steps in a new English incredibleindiatourtravels.com translation preceded by an ample introduction and accompanied by presentation boards of the authors and notes placed at the bottom of the book.