N Bryant Kirkland

Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature

Criticism, Imitation, Reception

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the intellectual influence of Herodotus among ancient Greek writers living under the Roman Empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 163mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9780197583517
• ISBN-10: 0197583512
• Artikelnr.: 64525932

Autorenporträt

N. Bryant Kirkland is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Acknowledgements
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* Introduction: After Herodotus
* Chapter 1. The Ethics of Authorship: Herodotus in the Rhetorical
Works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
* Chapter 2. Dionysius's Global Herodotus
* Chapter 3. Parallel Authors: Plutarch's "Life" of Herodotus
* Chapter 4. Hellenism in the Distance: Herodotean Fringes in Dio's
Borystheniticus
* Chapter 5. Removable Eyes: Lucian and the Truths of Herodotus
* Chapter 6. Anacharsis at Border Control
* Chapter 7. Acts of God: Pausanias Divines Herodotus
* Chapter 8. Pausanias in Wonderland
* Epilogue: Herodotus without End