Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian

by: Bowie, E.

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Aims and Scope
Recently the importance for Herodotus' work of contemporary medical and sophistic thought and techniques of argument has been widely recognised, as long had been his dependence on and difference from earlier geographical and ethnographic writing. This volume focuses on the place of these interests in his investigatory techniques and sets them alongside his many narrative skills, from superficially traditonal battle narrative and reworking of Greek or non-Greek traditions that border on myth to the structuring of narrative by highlighting the life of objects, and addresses such fundamental issues as how he chooses between competing explanations and how far he valued truth. The book tackles many of the basic issues that confront any attempt to understand Herodotus' work.

I. Narrator
[Homerikótatos]? : Battle narratives in Herodotus / John Marincola
Herodotus the story-teller / Angus Bowie
Justifying violence in Herodotus' Histories 3.38 : Nomos, king of all, and Pindaric poetics / K. Scarlett Kingsley
Sophocles' Oedipus and Herodotus' Periander / P.J. Finglass
Time, thy pyramids : The novella of Mycerinus (Herodotus 2.129-134) / Ioannis M. Konstantakos
Herodotus on queens and courtesans of Egypt / Gregory Nagy
II. Scientist
Herodotus mapping out his genre : the interaction of myth and geography in the Libyan logos / Vasiliki Zali
Herodotus the geographer / Reinhold Bichler
Herodotus as a literary critic / Nikolay P. Grintser
Herodotus on health and disease / Paul Demont
III. Historian
Causes in competition : Herodotus and Hippocratics / Christopher Pelling
[historéein] and [thomázein] : scientific terms and signs of unity in Herodotus' Histories / Smaro Nikolaidou-Arabatzi
[Chrysós, chrónos] and [kléos] : objects of gold, cognition, ambiguity, and authority in Herodotus' Lydian logos / Maria G. Xanthou
Thruth and authority in Herodotus' narrative : false stories and true stories / Rosalind Thomas

Subjects:
Criticism, interpretation, etc
HISTORY Ancient Greece
Herodotus
Herodotus Criticism and interpretation
Histoire ancienne Historiographie
Historiography
History, Ancient Historiography

Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian

by: Bowie, E.

• ISBN-13: 9783110581539 / 978-3-11-058153-9
• ISBN-03: 3110581531 / 3-11-058153-1
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2018

Price: 116,55 EURO

1 copy in stock