Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' Histories from the early and middle Hellenistic period. Through discussions of contemporary discourse relating to the Persian Wars, geography, literary style, and biography, it nuances our understanding of how ancient readers reacted to and appropriated the Histories.
Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' Histories from the early and middle Hellenistic period. Through discussions of contemporary discourse relating to the Persian Wars, geography, literary style, and biography, it nuances our understanding of how ancient readers reacted to and appropriated the Histories.
Jessica Priestley is a Leventis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition, University of Bristol.
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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: Biographical Traditions 2: The Great and the Marvellous 3: Herodotus and Hellenistic Geographies 4: The Persian Wars: new versions and new contexts 5: The Prose Homer of History Epilogue Appendix: Aristarchus' Commentary on Herodotus Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1: Biographical Traditions 2: The Great and the Marvellous 3: Herodotus and Hellenistic Geographies 4: The Persian Wars: new versions and new contexts 5: The Prose Homer of History Epilogue Appendix: Aristarchus' Commentary on Herodotus Bibliography Index
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