The Way of Herodotus : travels with the man who invented history /

During the classical age of Greece, Herodotus wrote the first great prose epic and became known through the ages as "the father of history." But he was much more than that. He was also the world's first travel writer, a pioneering geographer, anthropologist, explorer, moralist, invest...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marozzi, Justin, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Cambridge, MA] : Da Capo Press, 2010.
Edición:1st Da Capo Press pbk. ed.
Temas:
Herodotus. > History.
Herodotus.
Marozzi, Justin, > 1970- > Travel > Mediterranean Region.
Marozzi, Justin, > 1970- > Travel > Iraq.
Herodotus
Marozzi, Justin, > 1970-
History (Herodotus)
History, Ancient > Historiography.
Histoire ancienne > Historiographie.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
TRAVEL > Budget.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
History, Ancient > Historiography
Travel
Mediterranean Region > Description and travel.
Iraq > Description and travel.
Méditerranée, Région de la > Descriptions et voyages.
Irak > Descriptions et voyages.
Iraq
Mediterranean Region
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Dog-headed men, gold-digging ants and flying snakes, or, Why we should all read Herodotus
  • Turkey. Priestesses with beards ; Underwater Herodotus
  • Iraq. Fools and wars ; Baghdad, evangelicals and mocking madmen ; Babylon
  • Egypt. Memphis and Thebes : tall stories and self-immolating cats, or, No sex in temples, please, we're Egyptian ; Herodotus in Hollywood (and the Sahara) ; Cairo, mother of the world
  • Greece. Athens, city hall of wisdom ; Herodotus meets Aristotle ; Thessaloniki : history on the front line ; An exorcism ; Lunch (and a good deal of Retsina) with Patrick Leigh Fermor ; 'Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!' ; Wassailing gods, pious preists and tearful monks.

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