Herodotus and Hellenistic culture : literary studies in the reception of the Histories /

In a series of literary studies, Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' 'Histories' through the extant written record of the early and middle Hellenistic period. Responses to the Histories were rich and varied, and the range of Hellenistic writers resp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Priestley, Jessica
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Herodotus. > History.
Herodotus > Criticism and interpretation.
Herodotus
History (Herodotus)
500-499 B.C
History, Ancient > Historiography.
Histoire ancienne > Historiographie.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
Historiography
History, Ancient > Historiography
Greece > History > Persian Wars, 500-499 B.C. > Historiography.
Greece
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Cover""; ""Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture: Literary Studies in the Reception of the Histories""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""THROUGH HERODOTEAN EYES""; ""HELLENISTIC RECEPTIONS OF HERODOTUSâ€? HISTORIES""; ""FRAGMENTATIONS: SINGLE AUTHOR RECEPTION HISTORIES, SOURCES, AND PERIODIZATION""; ""1: Biographical Traditions""; ""HALICARNASSUS AND SAMOS""; ""THURII""; ""PELLA AND PTOLEMAIC ALEXANDRIA""; ""THEBES AND CORINTH""; ""ATHENS""; ""2: The Great and the Marvellous""; ""WONDER-NARRATIVES IN HERODOTUS""
  • ""HerodotusÂ? rhetoric of wonder""""Unmarked wonders""; ""THUCYDIDES AND WONDER: THE FRAMEWORK CHALLENGED""; ""ARISTOTLE AND WONDER: THE FRAMEWORK REJECTED""; ""CATALOGUING THE MARVELLOUS: HERODOTUS AND PARADOXOGRAPHY""; ""HERODOTUS AND THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD""; ""A Hellenistic construct""; ""The canonical wonders: Herodotean influence?""; ""Descriptions of the Seven Wonders: Herodotus acknowledged""; ""COMPETING AESTHETICS: GREAT AND SMALL, HUMAN AND DIVINE""; ""SCHOLARLY WONDER AND HERODOTUSâ€? INQUIRIES""; ""3: Herodotus and Hellenistic Geographies""; ""GEOGRAPHICAL UNCERTAINTIES""
  • ""Hyperboreans and Hypernotians""""The River Nile""; ""Herodotus on the inundation and source of the Nile""; ""The reception of Herodotusâ€? views on the Nile""; ""Theories of a west African source""; ""Diodorus Siculusâ€? representation of Herodotus on the Nile""; ""GEOGRAPHIES OF THE PAST""; ""The Egyptianâ€?Colchis theory""; ""The geography of Apolloniusâ€? Argonautica""; ""A geographical allusion to Herodotus""; ""4: The Persian Wars: New Versions and New Contexts""; ""GALATIANS, LATTER DAY PERSIANS""; ""TIMAEUS: AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE PERSIAN WARS""; ""EAST VERSUS WEST""
  • ""The beginning of the Histories (1.1â€?5)""""Apolloniusâ€? Argonautica""; ""Lycophronâ€?s Alexandra""; ""5: The Prose Homer of History""; ""HERODOTUS AND POETRY""; ""HERODOTUS THE LIAR""; ""Epilogue""; ""APPENDIX: Aristarchusâ€? Commentary on Herodotus""; ""Bibliography""; ""General Index""; ""Index of Passages Cited""

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