Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World

"This book meets three demands of the humanities today: transcending the Western perspective into a universal one; addressing the broad variety of cultures; and reflecting this new approach conceptually. Thus it gives new answers to the old question: what is history?"
--Jörn Rüsen, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen
 
"In this excellent anthology, internationally renowned experts of historical thinking and writing embed their predecessors' ideas in their respective contexts. Furthermore, they convincingly explain the differences between pre-modern forms of historical thinking and the conceptual categories we use today."
--Josef Wiesehöfer, The University of Kiel