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The audiences of Herodotus : oral performance and the major battle narratives / Ian Oliver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oliver, Ian (Classicist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Herodotus--Technique.
- Herodotus.
- Herodotus--Literary style.
- Herodotus. History.
- Oratory, Ancient.
- Audiences--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Audiences.
- Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C--Historiography.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 185 pages : 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books,an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2025]
- Summary:
- "This book resituates the Histories' battle narratives within the context of Herodotus's participation in the mid-fifth-century culture of wisdom performance, arguing that the Salamis and Plataea narratives reflect the biases and ideologies of an Athenian audience, while Thermopylae reflects an audience gathered at the Pythian Festival"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Epideixis and the Histories
- The Battle of Plataea : 8.133
- 9.70
- The other Greeks in Herodotus's Plataea narrative
- The Battle of Salamis : 8.1
- 8.96
- Athenian mainstays in the Salamis narrative
- The Battle of Thermopylae : 7.172
- 7.233
- Herodotus and Epideixis at the Pythian Festival
- Conclusion. The impact of audience-based criticism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Oliver, Ian. Audiences of Herodotus
- ISBN:
- 9781666936209
- 1666936200
- OCLC:
- 1464027322
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