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Reading Herodotus

2007-08-23 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2007-08-23
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Book Synopsis Reading Herodotus by : Elizabeth Irwin

Download or read book Reading Herodotus written by Elizabeth Irwin. This book was released on 2007-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and the overarching structure of Herodotus' narrative. This collection of twelve essays by internationally renowned scholars represents an important contribution to scholarship on Herodotus and will serve as an essential research tool for all those interested in Book 5 of the Histories, the interpretation of Herodotean narrative, and the historiography of the Ionian Revolt.

A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories

2018-04-05 History
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Release : 2018-04-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories by : Sean Sheehan

Download or read book A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories written by Sean Sheehan. This book was released on 2018-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our Ur-historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. Our readings can bring out various guises of Herodotus himself: an author with the eye of a travel writer and the mind of an investigative journalist; a globalist, enlightened but superstitious; a rambling storyteller but a prose stylist; the so-called 'father of history' but in antiquity also labelled the 'father of lies'; both geographer and gossipmonger; both entertainer and an author whom social and cultural historians read and admire. Guiding students chapter-by-chapter through approaches as fascinating and often surprising as the original itself, Sean Sheehan goes beyond conventional Herodotus introductions and instead looks at the various interpretations of the work, which themselves shed light on the original. With text boxes highlighting key topics and indices of passages, this volume is an essential guide for students whether reading Herodotus for the first time, or returning to revisit this crucial text for later research.

A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV

2007-08-30 History
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Release : 2007-08-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV by : David Asheri

Download or read book A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV written by David Asheri. This book was released on 2007-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it. This commentary by leading scholars, originally published in Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and is now presented for English readers.

Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus

2012-09-06 History
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Release : 2012-09-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus by : , Emily Baragwanath

Download or read book Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus written by , Emily Baragwanath. This book was released on 2012-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories.

Reading Herodotus

2012-09-15 History
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Release : 2012-09-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Reading Herodotus by : Debra Hamel

Download or read book Reading Herodotus written by Debra Hamel. This book was released on 2012-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to destroy a mighty empire: the story of Croesus of Lydia -- Cannibals and conquests: the story of Cyrus the Great -- Horny goats and medicinal urine: the Egyptian logos -- Madness and mummies: the reign of Cambyses -- Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Mediterranean: the stories of Polycrates and Periander -- Earless imposters and randy mounts: the early reign of Darius the Great -- The trouble with nomads: Darius' Scythian campaign -- Stuttering colonists and lousy deaths: the Libyan logos -- Tattooed slaves and ousted tyrants: post-Pisistratid Athens and the Ionian revolt -- Miltiades, madness, and Marathon: the first Persian War -- Feats of engineering and doomed valor: the Second Persian War to the Battle of Thermopylae -- Trial by trireme: the Battles at Artemisium and Salamis -- Concluding scenes: the Battles of Plataea and Mycale and the siege of Sestus.

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