Presented By: Center for Chinese Studies
CCS Noon Lecture Series
Metaphysics without God: Heaven Fortune, and Universalism in Sima Qian (ca. 145-86 BCE) and Polybius (ca. 200-118 BCE)
A talk by Filippo Marsili, Assistant Professor of History, Saint Louis University. This presentation explores how Greco-Roman and Chinese historiography explained empire formation and justified the preeminence of the Romans and of the Han over the known world.