Herodotus and Hellenistic culture : literary studies in the reception of the Histories / Jessica Priestley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Priestley, Jessica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herodotus. History.

Herodotus.

Herodotus--Criticism and interpretation.

History, Ancient--Historiography.

History, Ancient.

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

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jessica 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'.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture: Literary Studies in the Reception of the Histories""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""THROUGH HERODOTEAN EYES""; ""HELLENISTIC RECEPTIONS OF HERODOTUS� HISTORIES""; ""FRAGMENTATIONS: SINGLE AUTHOR RECEPTION HISTORIES, SOURCES, AND PERIODIZATION""; ""1: Biographical Traditions""; ""HALICARNASSUS AND SAMOS""; ""THURII""; ""PELLA AND PTOLEMAIC ALEXANDRIA""; ""THEBES AND CORINTH""; ""ATHENS""; ""2: The Great and the Marvellous""; ""WONDER-NARRATIVES IN HERODOTUS""

""Herodotus� rhetoric of wonder""""Unmarked wonders""; ""THUCYDIDES AND WONDER: THE FRAMEWORK CHALLENGED""; ""ARISTOTLE AND WONDER: THE FRAMEWORK REJECTED""; ""CATALOGUING THE MARVELLOUS: HERODOTUS AND PARADOXOGRAPHY""; ""HERODOTUS AND THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD""; ""A Hellenistic construct""; ""The canonical wonders: Herodotean influence?""; ""Descriptions of the Seven Wonders: Herodotus acknowledged""; ""COMPETING AESTHETICS: GREAT AND SMALL, HUMAN AND DIVINE""; ""SCHOLARLY WONDER AND HERODOTUS� INQUIRIES""; ""3: Herodotus and Hellenistic Geographies""; ""GEOGRAPHICAL UNCERTAINTIES""

""Hyperboreans and Hypernotians""""The River Nile""; ""Herodotus on the inundation and source of the Nile""; ""The reception of Herodotus� views on the Nile""; ""Theories of a west African source""; ""Diodorus Siculus� representation of Herodotus on the Nile""; ""GEOGRAPHIES OF THE PAST""; ""The Egyptian�Colchis theory""; ""The geography of Apollonius� Argonautica""; ""A geographical allusion to Herodotus""; ""4: The Persian Wars: New Versions and New Contexts""; ""GALATIANS, LATTER DAY PERSIANS""; ""TIMAEUS: AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE PERSIAN WARS""; ""EAST VERSUS WEST""

""The beginning of the Histories (1.1�5)""""Apollonius� Argonautica""; ""Lycophron�s Alexandra""; ""5: The Prose Homer of History""; ""HERODOTUS AND POETRY""; ""HERODOTUS THE LIAR""; ""Epilogue""; ""APPENDIX: Aristarchus� Commentary on Herodotus""; ""Bibliography""; ""General Index""; ""Index of Passages Cited""

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-151016-5

0-19-965309-7

OCLC:

875558165