Herodotus / edited by Rosaria Vignolo Munson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Munson, Rosaria Vignolo.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Oxford readings in classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herodotus. History.

Herodotus.

Greece--Historiography.

Greece.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

The ancient historian Herodotus, the Father of History, is also considered a great anthropologist. In his account of the Persian invasions of Greece in the fifth century BCE, he searches for the forces that transformed Persians from an underprivileged nation into the rulers of the largest empire of antiquity. He explores the non-Hellenic peoples that were either conquered by the Persians or managed to resist or elude their aggression, such as the Lydians, Egyptians, Libyans, Scythians, and Thracians, and he describes the lands they inhabit, their resources, customs, religious rituals, and cultural predisposition. This second volume of the Oxford Readings in Classical Studies on Herodotus focuses on his description of foreign lands and peoples, and on the theoretical issues it raises. The selected essays look at the principles of Herodotus' research concerning the physical world in the light of traditional myth and the science of his times, and they deal with the connections between travelling and storytelling, culture and gender, Hellenic and barbarian religions, and memory and ethnicity-all within the context of his insistence on the basic unity of human experience. Central to this collection is an examination of the extent to which the Histories' ethnographic portrayals conform to a conventional Greek construct of barbarian 'otherness', or derive from field-work and direct contact with native sources. Book jacket.

Contents:

v.1. Herodotus and the narrative of the past

v. 2. Herodotus and the world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Contains:

Herodotus and the narrative of the past.

Herodotus and the world.

ISBN:

9780199587568

0199587566

9780199587575

0199587574

9780199587582

0199587582

9780199587599

0199587590

OCLC:

858967702