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Herodotus : a very short introduction / Jennifer T. Roberts.
LIBRA D56.52.H45 R63 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Jennifer Tolbert, 1947-
- Series:
- Very short introductions ; 272.
- Very short introductions ; 272
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Herodotus.
- Herodotus. History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 123 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- 1 The world of Herodotus 6
- 2 Origins and the historian 20
- 3 Greeks and Persians at war 29
- 4 Herodotus as ethnographer 49
- 5 Women in history, women in The Histories 65
- 6 Herodotus and the divine 76
- 7 Herodotus as storyteller 89
- 8 Herodotus as historian 99.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199575991
- 9780199575992
- OCLC:
- 692291301
- Publisher Number:
- 99944378987
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