Carolyn Dewald / John Marincola (eds.)

Gebundenes Buch

The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus

Beschreibung

This Companion provides an up-to-date and accessible series of chapters examining the main aspects of the life and work of Herodotus, the first historian in the western tradition. Employing the newest research and methodologies, it incorporates and expands the rich scholarship on Herodotus of the last thirty years. A distinguished international team of scholars provides an introduction to his life and work as well as discussion of his intellectual background, his working methods and narrative techniques, and his views on nature and the gods, and history and human achievement.

Autor

Carolyn Dewald is Professor of History and Classics at Bard College, New York. She has written extensively on Herodotus, including the introduction and notes to Herodotus The Histories (translated by Robin Waterfield) (Oxford 1998). Her other publications include Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study (forthcoming).
John Marincola is Professor of Classics at Florida State University. His previous publications include Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (Cambridge 1997; 0521480194 HB; 0521545781 PB), Greek Historians (Oxford 2001) and (with M. A. Flower) Herodotus: Histories Book IX (Cambridge 2002; 0521593689 HB; 0521596505 PB).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 801g
• ISBN-13: 9780521830010
• ISBN-10: 052183001X
• Artikelnr.: 22435377

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"The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus is am odel of its kind and its editors should be proud. We are all in their debt." - John Dillery, University of Virginia