Herodotus: Volume 1

Herausgeber: Munson, Rosaria Vignolo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection - the first of two volumes - is dedicated to the historical component of Herodotus' Histories and includes important previously published essays, some translated into English for the first time, which discuss his historical method, sources, narrative art, literary antecedents, intellectual background, and political ideology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 149mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 747g
• ISBN-13: 9780199587568
• ISBN-10: 0199587566
• Artikelnr.: 37053368

Autorenporträt

Rosaria Munson is Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College where she has been teaching since 1990.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Antecedents, Sources, Credibility, and Historiê
* 1: Arnaldo Momigliano: The Place of Herodotus in the History of
Historiography
* 2: Robert L. Fowler: Herodotus and His Contemporaries
* Herodotus and Oral Tradition
* 3: Nino Luraghi: The stories before the Histories: Folktale and
Traditional Narrative in Herodotus
* 4: J. A. S. Evans: Oral Tradition in Herodotus
* 5: Harriet Flower: Herodotus and Delphic Traditions about Croesus
* Causation, Patterning, and the Meaning of History
* 6: Henry Immerwahr: Aspects of Historical Causation in Herodotus
* 7: Donald Lateiner: Herodotean Historiographical Patterning: the
Constitutional Debate
* 8: Matthew R. Christ: Herodotean Kings and Historical Inquiry
* Narratology
* 9: Irene F. D. De Jong: Narratological Aspects of the Histories of
Herodotus
* The Uses of History
* 10: Hermann Strasburger: Herodotus and Periclean Athens
* 11: Charles W. Fornara: Herodotus Perspective
* 12: Philip A. Stadter: Herodotus and the Athenian Archê
* Look at his End
* 13: Deborah Boedeker: Protesilaos and the End of Herodotus Histories
* 14: Carolyn Dewald: Wanton Kings, Pickled Heroes, and Gnomic Founding
Fathers: Strategies of Meaning at the End of Herodotus' Histories
* Bibliography of Works Cited
* Acknowledgements
* Index