The Cambridge companion to Herodotus / edited by Carolyn Dewald and John Marincola. [electronic reso...
The Cambridge companion to Herodotus / edited by Carolyn Dewald and John Marincola. [electronic reso...
The Cambridge companion to Herodotus / edited by Carolyn Dewald and John Marincola. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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English
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1 online resource (xv, 378 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Herodotus and the poetry of the past / John Marincola -- Herodotus and his prose predecessors / Robert Fowler -- Herodotus and tragedy / Jasper Griffin -- The intellectual milieu of Herodotus / Rosalind Thomas -- Meta-historiē : method and genre in the Histories / Nino Luraghi -- The syntax of hist...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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England
Date Published
2006.
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Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century BC. Moreover, research has shown that Herodotus is a sophisticated and at times even ironic narr...
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The Cambridge companion to Herodotus / edited by Carolyn Dewald and John Marincola. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions to literature
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English
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74VKVw6zDWwd
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1-139-00104-3
1-139-81713-2
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938.03092
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991023962500202626
