First published 2000

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© 2000 Christopher Pelling

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Pelling, C.B.R.

Literary texts and the Greek historian/Christopher Pelling.

p. cm.—

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Greek literature—History and criticism. 2. Literature and history—Greece—History. 3. History, Ancient—Historiography. 4. Historiography—Greece—History. 5. Greece—Historiography. I. Title.

PA3009.P45 1999

880.9’0109358-dc21 99-33324

CIP

ISBN 0415-07350-2 (hbk)

ISBN 0415-07351-0 (pbk)

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