Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus

Zusatztext rich and multifaceted ... the contributions are well-argued and present new and exciting readings of these important mythic narratives in Herodotus' Histories. Informationen zum Autor Emily Baragwanath is Assistant Professor in the Classics Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the literary techniques employed by the Greek historians in their construction of historical narratives. Her first book, Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus (Oxford University Press, 2008), won Oxford's Conington Prize and the CAMWS Outstanding Publication Award. At present she is working on the Athenian author Xenophon.Mathieu de Bakker is University Lecturer in ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on Greek historiography and oratory, and he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Greek language, literature, linguistics, and epigraphy. In 2009 he received the lecturer of the year award from his university. Klappentext This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories.

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• Authors: Emily (EDT)/ De Bakker Baragwanath
• Assisted by: Emily Baragwanath (Editor), Emily Baragwanath (Editor), Mathieu De Bakker (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9780199693979
• ISBN: 978-0-19-969397-9
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Griechenland, Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, History - General History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory