A guide to reading Herodotus' histories / Sean Sheehan.
A guide to reading Herodotus' histories / Sean Sheehan.
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London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
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G 2018/3255
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English
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Physical content
xii, 316 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
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England
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our Ur-historian, as ethnology,...
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A guide to reading Herodotus' histories / Sean Sheehan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/3255
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74VKVokbbr7A
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1474292674 hardcover
9781474292665 paperback
1474292666 paperback
9781474292672 hardcover
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930
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991024169371502626
