Herodotean Soundings

Author : Andreas Schwab,Alexander Schütze
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783823393290

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Herodotean Soundings by Andreas Schwab,Alexander Schütze Pdf

This volume is dedicated to the logos of Cambyses at the beginning of Book 3 in Herodotus' Histories, one of the few sources on the Persian conquest of Egypt that has not yet been exhaustively explored in its complexity. The contributions of this volume deal with the motivations and narrative strategies behind Herodotus' characterization of the Persian king but also with the geopolitical background of Cambyses' conquest of Egypt as well as the reception of the Cambyses logos by later ancient authors. "Herodotean Soundings: The Cambyses Logos" exemplifies how a multidisciplinary approach can contribute significantly to a better understanding of a complex work such as Herodotus' Histories.

Author : Andreas Schwab,Alexander Schütze
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783823303916

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Herodotean Soundings by Andreas Schwab,Alexander Schütze Pdf

This volume is dedicated to the logos of Cambyses at the beginning of Book 3 in Herodotus' Histories, one of the few sources on the Persian conquest of Egypt that has not yet been exhaustively explored in its complexity. The contributions of this volume deal with the motivations and narrative strategies behind Herodotus' characterization of the Persian king but also with the geopolitical background of Cambyses' conquest of Egypt as well as the reception of the Cambyses logos by later ancient authors. "Herodotean Soundings: The Cambyses Logos" exemplifies how a multidisciplinary approach can contribute significantly to a better understanding of a complex work such as Herodotus' Histories.

Author : Michael Butter
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783823304968

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From Panem to the Pandemic: An Introduction to Cultural Studies by Michael Butter Pdf

Today, virtually all BA programs in English at German universities place a strong focus on Cultural Studies. However, textbooks that introduce first-year students to the subject are rare, and the few existing ones are too complicated or not comprehensive enough. By contrast, this textbook introduces the key theories and concepts of Cultural Studies systematically and thoroughly. It puts particular emphasis on their application, aiming to enable students to do their own analyses of cultural artefacts and practices. The author draws on many examples, mostly taken from American culture, but in each chapter, he applies the ideas introduced to The Hunger Games franchise and the coronavirus pandemic to show how different theories can lead to very different interpretations of the same phenomenon. Each chapter ends with exercises that allow students to apply what they have learned.

Author : N. Bryant Kirkland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197583517

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Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature by N. Bryant Kirkland Pdf

"Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, this book analyzes the entanglements of criticism and imitation in select works by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Dio of Prusa, Lucian, and Pausanias. It offers a new angle on Herodotus's intellectual afterlife, channeled through evocations both explicit and implicit in literary criticism, the moral essay, public oration, satire and periegetic literature. Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature shifts focus from reputation only - what ancient authors explicitly had to say about Herodotus - toward the kinetic interrelation between Herodotus's reputation and his active reworking across genre and mode. It demonstrates how Herodotus was strategically construed and often implicitly summoned - as fabulist, classicist, moralizer, and evasive intellectual - and how such Herodotean presences played to the wider purposes of Imperial writers. Herodotus became a touchstone for writers concerned with a nimbus of questions that the Histories first helped to articulate. Imperial Greeks found Herodotus useful in puzzling through questions of authorial persona, mimesis, the relationship between aesthetic and ethical criticism, the self, and the contingent definitions of Hellenism under Rome. Ultimately, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature widens an incomplete reception history and reads bi-focally, examining how attention to the presence of Herodotus in various texts unveils new layers of meaning in those works, while also showing how ancient receptions offer insight into the Histories"--

Author : Justin Marozzi
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082696934

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The Man who Invented History by Justin Marozzi Pdf

During the classical age of Greece, Herodotus wrote the first great prose epic and became known through the ages as "the father of history." But he was much more than that. He was also the world's first travel writer, a pioneering geographer, anthropologist, explorer, moralist, investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and enlightened multiculturalist. He was at once a learned professor and a tabloid journalist, a man of great wit and wisdom with an unfailing eye for fabulous material to inform and amuse, to titillate, horrify, and entertain.

Author : Elizabeth Vandiver
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035209761

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Heroes in Herodotus by Elizabeth Vandiver Pdf

This examination of Herodotus' references to mythological heroes reveals new aspects of his historiography and of his literary technique. In the development of Greek prose, Herodotus lies between the early logographers and later historians, thematically and stylistically as well as chronologically. His use of heroes exemplifies the intermediate nature of his work. As historiographical data, the heroes serve as chronological reference points, provide aetiologies for families and cities, and explain later customs and courses of action. As literary devices, the heroes operate as symbolic elements that stress important points in the text, place foreign countries within a comprehensible context, and contribute to the characterization of individuals such as Leonidas, Demaratus, and Xerxes.

Author : Jessica Priestley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199653096

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Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture by Jessica Priestley Pdf

Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' Histories from the early and middle Hellenistic period. Through discussions of contemporary discourse relating to the Persian Wars, geography, literary style, and biography, it nuances our understanding of how ancient readers reacted to and appropriated the Histories.

Author : Leslie Kurke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400836567

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Aesopic Conversations by Leslie Kurke Pdf

Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, however, explores the anonymous Life of Aesop and offers a different set of perspectives. Leslie Kurke argues that the traditions surrounding this strange text, when read with and against the works of Greek high culture, allow us to reconstruct an ongoing conversation of "great" and "little" traditions spanning centuries. Evidence going back to the fifth century BCE suggests that Aesop participated in the practices of nonphilosophical wisdom (sophia) while challenging it from below, and Kurke traces Aesop's double relation to this wisdom tradition. She also looks at the hidden influence of Aesop in early Greek mimetic or narrative prose writings, focusing particularly on the Socratic dialogues of Plato and the Histories of Herodotus. Challenging conventional accounts of the invention of Greek prose and recognizing the problematic sociopolitics of humble prose fable, Kurke provides a new approach to the beginnings of prose narrative and what would ultimately become the novel. Delving into Aesop, his adventures, and his crafting of fables, Aesopic Conversations shows how this low, noncanonical figure was--unexpectedly--central to the construction of ancient Greek literature. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Author : Oliver Taplin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature
ISBN : 1383004382

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Homeric Soundings by Oliver Taplin Pdf

To a reader, the "Iliad" may seem rather long and shapeless. Closer study reveals powerful networks of connected scenes and motifs which may well have been more immediate to an audience gathered to hear the whole poem performed out loud.

Author : Thomas Harrison,Joseph Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472753

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Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century by Thomas Harrison,Joseph Skinner Pdf

Explores the many different ways in which Herodotus' Histories were read and understood during a momentous period of world history.

Author : Rosaria Vignolo Munson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0472112031

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Telling Wonders by Rosaria Vignolo Munson Pdf

A sharp analysis of how Herodotus' narrative participates in the rhetoric of shaping public attitudes about the present

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1568 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015064554523

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah Tarn Steiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107110687

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Choral Constructions in Greek Culture by Deborah Tarn Steiner Pdf

Demonstrates the centrality of chorality in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities.

Author : François Hartog
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520264236

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The Mirror of Herodotus by François Hartog Pdf

"The best book to come out on Herodotus in years."—G. E. R. Lloyd, King's College Cambridge

Author : Ross Clare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781350157217

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Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames by Ross Clare Pdf

This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Rome. It focuses on the culturally rich continuum of ancient Greek and Roman games, treating them not just as representations, but as functional interactive products that require the player to interpret, communicate with and alter them. Tracking the movement of such concepts across different media, the study builds an interconnected picture of antiquity in video games within a wider transmedial environment. Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames presents a wide array of games from several different genres, ranging from the blood-spilling violence of god-killing and gladiatorial combat to meticulous strategizing over virtual Roman Empires and often bizarre adventures in pseudo-ancient places. Readers encounter instances in which players become intimately engaged with the “epic mode” of spectacle in God of War, moments of negotiation with colonised lands in Rome: Total War and Imperium Romanum, and multi-layered narratives rich with ancient traditions in games such as Eleusis and Salammbo. The case study approach draws on close analysis of outstanding examples of the genre to uncover how both representation and gameplay function in such “ancient games”.