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Brill's Companion to Herodotus

By Hans van Wees , Egbert J. Bakker , Irene J. F. De Jong

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2002
ISBN
9004120602, 9789004120600
LCC
PA4004 .B75 2000
Open Library ID
OL3585622M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
111 MB (116019656 bytes)
Pages
652\673
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Herodotus's "Histories" can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as na?ve and "archaic", the "Histories" are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, religious, moral and social influences, but actively contributing to the great debates of their time. Their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. This text offers an in-depth overview of all these approaches to Herodotus's work.

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