Emily Baragwanath

Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the representation of human motivation in Herodotus' Histories. Emily Baragwanath's focus is upon the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represents this elusive kind of historical knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 146mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780199231294
• ISBN-10: 019923129X
• Artikelnr.: 23909042

Autorenporträt

Emily Baragwanath is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: The Histories, Plutarch, and reader response
* 2: The Homeric background
* 3: Constructions of motives and the historian's persona
* 4: Problematized motivation in the Samian and Persian logoi (Book
III)
* 5: For better, for worse . . .: motivation in the Athenian logoi
(Books I and VI)
* 6: `For freedom's sake . . .': motivation in the Ionian Revolt (Books
V-VI)
* 7: To medize or not to medize . . .: compulsion and negative motives
(Books VII-IX)
* 8: Xerxes: motivation and explanation (Books VII-IX)
* 9: Themistocles: constructions of motivation (Books VII-IX)
* Epilogue