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Brill s companion to the reception of herodotus in antiquity and beyond book summary. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything else. Carolyn dewald taught for many years at the university of southern california, and is now professor of history and classics at bard college. Herodotus histories has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired and criticized across diverse genres, historical periods, and geographical boundaries. During the last half century there has been an extraordinary. Volumes in the series deal with subjects pertaining to the broad field of classical reception including, but not limited to reception of art, literature, architecture, history, religion, political thought, and intellectual thought including volumes on influential classical scholars and the history of classical scholarship in later centuries and in various scholarly disciplines. Always update books hourly, if not looking, search in the book search column. Elpensamientodelaapocalipticajudiacarlos blanco,pdf. The cambridge companion to herodotus cambridge companions to. Get e books a companion to josephus on pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi and audiobook for free. Brills companion to the reception of herodotus in antiquity and beyond.
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Reading herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in herodotean scholarship. General bibliography red indicates a link direct to an etext this bibliography was put together by niall livingstone and has been adapted by ken dowden. Brills companion to herodotus request pdf researchgate. May 31, 2002 herodotus outstanding achievements as a literary figure, intellectual, historian and ethnographer have in recent years come to be appreciated with much greater depth and subtlety. John marincola writes in his introduction to the penguin edition of the histories that there are certain identifiable pieces in the early books of herodotuss work which could be labeled as performance pieces. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the the cambridge companion to herodotus cambridge companions to literature, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country.
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At the beginning of his histories, herodotus says that the logioi of the persians claim that the cause of the great conflict between the greeks and the persians, which is the main subject of the histories, must be attributed to the phoeniciansso, not to the persians, nor to the greeks. A selective bibliography to herodotus items with an asterisk. This companion offers an uptodate and indepth overview of all these current approaches to herodotus remarkable work. The cambridge companion to herodotus cambridge companions to literature. The contributions cover a wide range of issues, including thucydides life, intellectual milieu and predecessors, thucydides and the act of writing, his rhetoric, historical method and narrative techniques, narrative unity in the history, the speeches. List of books and articles about herodotus online research. Phrase searching you can use double quotes to search for a series of words in a particular order. Only scant knowledge of his life can be gleaned from his writings and from references to him by later writings, notably the suda. He is coeditor of brills companion to herodotus 2002. Brill s companion to the reception of herodotus in antiquity and beyond offers new insights on the reception and cultural transmission of one of the most controversial and influential texts to have survived from classical antiquity. Brills companion to the reception of herodotus in antiquity. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics. Herodotus would have made his researches known to the larger world through oral recitations to a public crowd. Buy brills companion to herodotus by bakker, egbert j, wees, hans, jong, irene isbn.
The hardcover of the brills companion to herodotus by egbert j. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the. During the last half century there has been an extraordinary renaissance in herodotean scholarship. Brill s companion to herodotus is a very big book and it is also very good bookthe editors of brill s companion to herodotus and their colleagues have provided a lucid and comprehensive guide to contemporary scholarship on herodotus. Herodotus and the invention of history, arethusa special volume, 20 1987. Gregory nagy, herodotus and the logioi of the persians. Brills companion to herodotus, 2002 online research library. The bibliography on herodotus is as massive as the monumental history itself. For example, world war ii with quotes will give more precise results than world war ii. She has written extensively on herodotus, including the introduction and notes to the oxford worlds classics translation of herodotus 1998. Read the fulltext online edition of brills companion to herodotus 2002.
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