Reading Herodotus - A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus'' Histories

Klappentext This 2007 text contains twelve specially commissioned essays on the historical and literary interpretation of Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories. Zusammenfassung Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus' Histories. Twelve specially commissioned essays by international experts focus on the historical and literary interpretation of Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Elizabeth Irwin and Emily Greenwood; 1. 'What's in a name?' and exploring the comparable: onomastics, ethnography and kratos in Thrace (5.1-2 and 3-10) Elizabeth Irwin; 2. The Paeonians: 5.11-17 Robin Osborne; 3. Narrating ambiguity: murder and Macedonian alliances: 5.17-22 David Fearn; 4. Bridging the narrative: 5.23-7 Emily Greenwood; 5. The trouble with the Ionians: Herodotus and the beginning of the Ionian Revolt (5.28-38.1) Rosaria Munson; 6. The Dorieus episode and the Ionian Revolt: 5.42-8 Simon Hornblower; 7. Aristagoras: 5.49-55.97 Christopher Pelling; 8. Structure and significance: 5.55-69 Vivienne Gray; 9. Athens and Aegina: 5.82-9 Johannes Haubold; 10. 'Saving' Greece from the 'ignominy' of tyranny? The 'famous' and 'wonderful' speech of Socles John Moles; 11. Cyprus and Onesilus: an interlude of freedom (5.104, 108-16) Anastasia Serghidou; 12. The Fourth Dorian Invasion and the Ionian Revolt (5.76-126) John Henderson.

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• Authors: Elizabeth Irwin, Elizabeth (Columbia University Irwin, Elizabeth Greenwood Irwin
• Assisted by: Emily Greenwood (Editor), Greenwood Emily (Editor), Elizabeth Irwin (Editor), Irwin Elizabeth (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.07.2011
• EAN: 9780521201025
• ISBN: 978-0-521-20102-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; European History, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology