Herodotus in the long nineteenth century /
Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century traces the impact of Herodotus' Histories during a momentous period in world history, an era of heightened social mobility, religious controversy, scientific discovery and colonial expansion. Contributions by an international team of specialists in Greek...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2020].
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| Summary: | Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century traces the impact of Herodotus' Histories during a momentous period in world history, an era of heightened social mobility, religious controversy, scientific discovery and colonial expansion. Contributions by an international team of specialists in Greek historiography, classical archaeology, receptions and nineteenth-century intellectual history shed new light on how the Histories were read, remembered and reimagined in historical writing and in an exciting array of real-world contexts, from the classrooms of English public schools and universities to the music hall, museum or gallery, from the newsstand to the nursery and from the banks of the Nile to the mountains of the Hindu Kush. They reveal not only how engagement with Herodotus' work permeated nationalist discourses of the period, but also the extent to which these national and disciplinary contexts helped shape the way both Herodotus and the ancient past have been understood and interpreted. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-321) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108472753 1108472753 9781108462143 1108462146 |