Motivation and narrative in Herodotus /
In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the con...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the German. |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Oxford classical monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the contemporary sophists strove to discover truth about the invisible, Herodotus was acutely concerned to uncover hidden human motivations, whose depiction was vital to his project ofrecounting and explaining the past. Emily Baragwanath explores the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 374 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-341) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780191552335 019155233X 1281852325 9781281852328 9780191710797 0191710792 |