Herodotus in context : ethnography, science, and the art of persuasion / Rosalind Thomas.
Herodotus in context : ethnography, science, and the art of persuasion / Rosalind Thomas.
Herodotus in context : ethnography, science, and the art of persuasion / Rosalind Thomas.
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Date
2000.
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N938.007/3
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English
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viii, 321 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Medicine and the ethnography of health -- 3. Dividing the world: Europe, Asia, Greeks and barbarians -- 4. Nomos is king: nomos, environment and ethnic character in Herodotus -- 5. 'Wonders' and the natural world: natural philosophy and historie -- 6. Argument and the language...
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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England
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2000.
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"Herodotus called his work an enquiry and wrote before 'history' was a separate discipline. Coming from Halicarnassus, at the crossroads between the Persian and Athenian spheres of influence, he combined the culture of Athens with that of the more pluralistic and less ethnocentric cities of east Greece. Alive to the implications of this cultural ba...
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Herodotus in context : ethnography, science, and the art of persuasion / Rosalind Thomas.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-310) and indexes.
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N938.007/3
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74VvQeQweOp3
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0521662591
9780521662598
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938.007202
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991014678319702626
