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Brill's companion to the reception of Herodotus in antiquity and beyond /

"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. Herodotus' Histories has been adopted, adapted, imi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Priestley, Jessica (Editor ), Zali, Vasiliki (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Brill's companions to classical reception ; v. 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 "Father of History"
  • 1. Herodotus in Thucydides: A Hypothesis / Marek Wecowski
  • 2. Herodotus and His Successors: The Rhetoric of the Persian Wars in Thucydides and Xenophon / Vasiliki Zali
  • 3. Duris of Samos and a Herodotean Model for Writing History / Christopher A. Baron
  • 4."This is What Herodotus Relates": The Presence of Herodotus' Histories in Josephus' Writings / Eran Almagor
  • 5. History without Malice: Plutarch Rewrites the Battle of Plataea / John Marincola
  • 6. Herodotus in Renaissance France / Benjamin Earley
  • 7. The Anti-Thucydides: Herodotus and the Development of Modern Historiography / Neville Morley
  • pt. 2 Language, Translation and Scholarship
  • 8. Herodotus' Reception in Ancient Greek Lexicography and Grammar: From the Hellenistic to the Imperial Age / Olga Tribulato
  • 9. Herodotus' Reputation in Latin Literature from Cicero to the 12th Century / Felix Racine
  • Note continued: 10. Valla's Herodotean Labours: Towards a New View of Herodotus in the Italian Renaissance / Adam Foley
  • 11. Herodotus and Narrative Art in Renaissance Ferrara: The Translation of Matteo Maria Boiardo / Dennis Looney
  • 12. The `Rediscovery' of Egypt: Herodotus and His Account of Egypt in the Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute-Egypte (1802) by Vivant Denon / Andreas Schwab
  • 13. Not beyond Herodotus? Psammetichus' Experiment and Modern Thought about Language / Benjamin Eldon Stevens
  • pt. 3 New Narratives and Genres
  • 14. Herodotus (and Ctesias) Re-enacted: Leadership in Xenophon's Cyropaedia / Vivienne Gray
  • 15. Pausanias and the Footsteps of Herodotus / Greta Howes
  • 16. Ryszard Kapuscinski's Travels with Herodotus: Reportage from the Self / Kinga Kosmala
  • 17. Herodotus in Fiction: Gore Vidal's Creation / Heather Neilson.