Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion / Jan Zacharias van Rookhuijzen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rookhuijzen, Jan Zacharias van, 1988- author.

Standardized Title:

Where Xerxes throne once stood

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herodotus. History.

Herodotus.

History (Herodotus).

Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.

Greece.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 373 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion : place and memory in Greece and Anatolia

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2019]

Summary:

"This book argues that Herodotus' topography of the Persian Wars, long taken at face value, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes' invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Radboud University, 2018, titled Where Xerxes throne once stood: gazing with Herodotus at the Persian invasion in the landscapes of Greece and Anatolia.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Rookhuijzen, Jan Zacharias van, 1988- author. Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion

ISBN:

9783110610208

3110610205

OCLC:

1044836220