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Zusatztext These contributions, well selected and well introduced by the editor, represent a good guide to the complex universe of Herodotus. Informationen zum Autor Rosaria Munson is Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College where she has been teaching since 1990. Klappentext This second volume's selected essays look at the principles of Herodotus' research concerning the physical world in the light of traditional myth and the science of his times! and deal with the connections between travelling and storytelling! culture and gender! Hellenic and barbarian religions! and memory and ethnicity. Zusammenfassung This second volume's selected essays look at the principles of Herodotus' research concerning the physical world in the light of traditional myth and the science of his times, and deal with the connections between travelling and storytelling, culture and gender, Hellenic and barbarian religions, and memory and ethnicity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Rosaria V. Munson Physis and Historiê 1: James S. Romm: The Boundaries of Earth 2: Aldo Corcella: Herodotus and Analogy 3: Catherine Darbo-Peschanski: Herodotus and Historia The Homeric wanderer 4: John Marincola: Odysseus and the Historians Women in Herodotus 5: Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg and Addendun by Amélie Kuhrt: Exit Atossa: Images of Women in Greek Historiography about Persia 6: Carolyn Dewald: Women and Culture in Herodotus Histories World religions and the divine 7: John Gould: Herodotus and Religion 8: Walter Burkert: Herodotus on the Names of Gods: Polytheism as a Historical Problem Herodotus barbaroi 9: Michèle Rosellini and Suzanne Saïd: Women's Customs among the Savages in Herodotus 10: Françcois Hartog: Imaginary Scythians: Space and Nomadism 11: James Redfield: Herodotus the Tourist 12: Ian S. Moyer: Herodotus and an Egyptian Mirage 13: Rosaria V. Munson: Who Are Herodotus' Persians? Us and them 14: Rosalind Thomas: Ethnicity, Genealogy, and Hellenism in Herodotus 15: Christopher Pelling: East is East and West is West - Or Are They? National Stereotypes in Herodotus Bibliography of Works Cited Acknowledgements Index ...
