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Reading Herodotus

Elizabeth Irwin,Emily Greenwood
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Author : Elizabeth Irwin,Emily Greenwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139466745

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Reading Herodotus by Elizabeth Irwin,Emily Greenwood Pdf

Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and the overarching structure of Herodotus' narrative. This collection of twelve essays by internationally renowned scholars represents an important contribution to scholarship on Herodotus and will serve as an essential research tool for all those interested in Book 5 of the Histories, the interpretation of Herodotean narrative, and the historiography of the Ionian Revolt.

A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories

Sean Sheehan
A Guide to Reading Herodotus Histories Book PDF

Author : Sean Sheehan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474292689

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A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories by Sean Sheehan Pdf

Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our Ur-historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. Our readings can bring out various guises of Herodotus himself: an author with the eye of a travel writer and the mind of an investigative journalist; a globalist, enlightened but superstitious; a rambling storyteller but a prose stylist; the so-called 'father of history' but in antiquity also labelled the 'father of lies'; both geographer and gossipmonger; both entertainer and an author whom social and cultural historians read and admire. Guiding students chapter-by-chapter through approaches as fascinating and often surprising as the original itself, Sean Sheehan goes beyond conventional Herodotus introductions and instead looks at the various interpretations of the work, which themselves shed light on the original. With text boxes highlighting key topics and indices of passages, this volume is an essential guide for students whether reading Herodotus for the first time, or returning to revisit this crucial text for later research.

Reading Herodotus

Debra Hamel
Reading Herodotus Book PDF

Author : Debra Hamel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421406565

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How to destroy a mighty empire: the story of Croesus of Lydia -- Cannibals and conquests: the story of Cyrus the Great -- Horny goats and medicinal urine: the Egyptian logos -- Madness and mummies: the reign of Cambyses -- Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Mediterranean: the stories of Polycrates and Periander -- Earless imposters and randy mounts: the early reign of Darius the Great -- The trouble with nomads: Darius' Scythian campaign -- Stuttering colonists and lousy deaths: the Libyan logos -- Tattooed slaves and ousted tyrants: post-Pisistratid Athens and the Ionian revolt -- Miltiades, madness, and Marathon: the first Persian War -- Feats of engineering and doomed valor: the Second Persian War to the Battle of Thermopylae -- Trial by trireme: the Battles at Artemisium and Salamis -- Concluding scenes: the Battles of Plataea and Mycale and the siege of Sestus.

Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus

, Emily Baragwanath,Mathieu de Bakker
Myth Truth and Narrative in Herodotus Book PDF

Author : , Emily Baragwanath,Mathieu de Bakker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199693979

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Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus by , Emily Baragwanath,Mathieu de Bakker Pdf

This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories.

A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories

Sean Sheehan
A Guide to Reading Herodotus Histories Book PDF

Author : Sean Sheehan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474292696

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A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories by Sean Sheehan Pdf

Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our Ur-historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. Our readings can bring out various guises of Herodotus himself: an author with the eye of a travel writer and the mind of an investigative journalist; a globalist, enlightened but superstitious; a rambling storyteller but a prose stylist; the so-called 'father of history' but in antiquity also labelled the 'father of lies'; both geographer and gossipmonger; both entertainer and an author whom social and cultural historians read and admire. Guiding students chapter-by-chapter through approaches as fascinating and often surprising as the original itself, Sean Sheehan goes beyond conventional Herodotus introductions and instead looks at the various interpretations of the work, which themselves shed light on the original. With text boxes highlighting key topics and indices of passages, this volume is an essential guide for students whether reading Herodotus for the first time, or returning to revisit this crucial text for later research.

The Persian Wars

Herodotus
The Persian Wars Book PDF

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066464400

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The Persian Wars by Herodotus Pdf

Herodotus, the great Greek historian, wrote this famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians in a delightful style. Herodotus portrays the dispute as one between the forces of slavery on the one hand and freedom on the other. This work covers the rise of the Persian influence and a history of the Persian empire, a description and history of Egypt, and a long digression on the landscape and traditions of Scythia. Because of the comprehensiveness of this work, it was considered the founding work of history in Western literature. A must-have for history enthusiasts.

Histories

Herodotus,James Romm
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Author : Herodotus,James Romm
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624661150

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This volume includes a wealth of helpful footnotes; more than a dozen maps and illustrations; a chronology of the Archaic Age; a glossary of main characters, places, and terms; suggested further reading; and an index of proper nouns.

Herodotus Reader

Herodotus
Herodotus Reader Book PDF

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Focus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Greece
ISBN : 1585103047

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Herodotus Reader by Herodotus Pdf

"An annotated Herodotus reader containing passages from books I-IX of the Histories. For intermediate courses in Greek language at the college level or Greek language courses in Herodotus. It is also suitable for post-intermediate, secondary school students who want to tackle the works of a popular but challenging author."--From publisher description.

Herodotus, Histories, Book V

Philip S. Peek
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Author : Philip S. Peek
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780806162560

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Herodotus, Histories, Book V by Philip S. Peek Pdf

History begins with Herodotus (485–425 b.c.e.). Born in Halikarnassos, a gateway between the Greek and Persian worlds, Herodotus in his Histories narrates the great historical struggle between the Persian Empire and the Greek-speaking city-states at the dawn of the classical era. Herodotus does not merely list events or tell tales; his history inquires into the causes of events and casts its net wide to include ethnography and legend as well as political and military history. Book V of the Histories focuses on the Persians and their expansion into Thrakia and Makedonia, as well as their conflict with the Greeks of Ionia. Beginning in the timeless legends of prehistory, Herodotus discusses the customs of the Thrakians, offers insight into Sparta’s mindset, and narrates the struggle to restore democracy at Athens after the reign of the tyrant Peisistratos. The narrative of Book V sprawls over Asia, Africa, and Europe, naming more than 350 people and places. The reader will find in Herodotus a literate, keenly observant, wide-ranging guide to a time when Persia ruled 40 percent of the world's population and was confronted by an uneasy and fragile alliance of Greek city-states. In his introduction to the text and commentary, author Philip S. Peek outlines a process by which students of ancient Greek can develop translation and reading skills. For students’ convenience, Peek pairs the Greek text with the commentary and includes in the book’s appendices a case and function chart, an explanation of infinitives, a summary of the subjunctive and optative moods, a list of parsing terms, and a list of the 500 most commonly occurring Greek words. A comprehensive glossary rounds out the volume. As further aids to students, running vocabulary for each text section and a generalized list of the principal parts of verbs can be downloaded from oupress.com.

A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV

David Asheri,Alan Lloyd,Aldo Corcella
A Commentary on Herodotus Books I IV Book PDF

Author : David Asheri,Alan Lloyd,Aldo Corcella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 795 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198149569

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A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV by David Asheri,Alan Lloyd,Aldo Corcella Pdf

Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it. This commentary by leading scholars, originally published in Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and is now presented for English readers.

Herodotus

Jeanne Bendick
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Author : Jeanne Bendick
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781932350203

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Herodotus by Jeanne Bendick Pdf

Best-selling author Jeanne Bendick takes us for another informative—and amusing—journey into places and events of long ago. Herodotus and the Road to History, written in the first person, details the investigative journeys of Herodotus—a contemporary of the Old Testament prophet Malachi—as he takes ship from Greece and voyages to the limits of his own ancient world. His persistence, amidst disbelief and ridicule, in the self-appointed task of recording his discoveries as “histories” (the Greek word meaning “inquiry”), means that today we can still follow his expeditions into the wonder and mystery of Syria, Persia, Egypt and the “barbaric” north. Jeanne Bendick's lucid text, humorous illustrations and helpful maps entertain and instruct as they open the way for readers young and old to once again join Herodotus . . . on the road to history.

Travels with Herodotus

Ryszard Kapuscinski
Travels with Herodotus Book PDF

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307548238

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Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of the Greek historiographer helped shape his own view of an increasingly globalized world. Written with supreme eloquence and a constant eye to the global undercurrents that have shaped the last half-century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey across continents.

The Histories

Herodotus
The Histories Book PDF

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199535668

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Originally published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

The Scythians

Barry Cunliffe
The Scythians Book PDF

Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192551863

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The Scythians by Barry Cunliffe Pdf

Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south - the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks - and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe. Relations with the Greeks around the shores of the Black Sea were rather different - both communities benefiting from trading with each other. This led to the development of a brilliant art style, often depicting scenes from Scythian mythology and everyday life. It is from the writings of Greeks like the historian Herodotus that we learn of Scythian life: their beliefs, their burial practices, their love of fighting, and their ambivalent attitudes to gender. It is a world that is also brilliantly illuminated by the rich material culture recovered from Scythian burials, from the graves of kings on the Pontic steppe, with their elaborate gold work and vividly coloured fabrics, to the frozen tombs of the Altai mountains, where all the organic material - wooden carvings, carpets, saddles and even tattooed human bodies - is amazingly well preserved. Barry Cunliffe here marshals this vast array of evidence - both archaeological and textual - in a masterful reconstruction of the lost world of the Scythians, allowing them to emerge in all their considerable vigour and splendour for the first time in over two millennia.

Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction

Jennifer T. Roberts
Herodotus A Very Short Introduction Book PDF

Author : Jennifer T. Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199575992

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Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer T. Roberts Pdf

Jennifer Roberts introduces the background and writing of the 5th century Greek thinker and researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who invented the genre of historical investigation. She discusses all aspects of his work, including his fascination with his origins; his travels; his interest in seeing the world; and the recurring themes of his work.