Reading Herodotus - A Guided Tour Through Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, Crazy Tyrants of

At once academic and cheeky, the experience of this book is like reading Herodotus while simultaneously consulting a history of Greece and a scholarly commentary on the text.

About the author

Debra Hamel is an independent scholar and the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan’s Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece.

Summary

At once academic and cheeky, the experience of this book is like reading Herodotus while simultaneously consulting a history of Greece and a scholarly commentary on the text.

Product details

• Authors: Debra Hamel, Hamel Debra
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2012
• EAN: 9781421406558
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0655-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation