Herodotus

Informationen zum Autor John Gould Klappentext This text brings new approaches to Herodotus' sources and to his methods of collecting information, to the logic of his narrative and to his understanding of human behaviour. Drawing on recent advances in the understanding or oral tradition, the author takes issue with a number of theories about Herodotus' historical thinking. Herodotus as a story teller, he argues, does not preclude Herodotus as a historian; reciprocity is central to his method; Herodotos' declared subject, the Persian Wars, is itself Herodotus' own construct, embodied in the form of continuous narrative derived from a mass of local and family traditions that reach back far into the past and encompass most of the known world. The book concludes that only a rejection of modern historiographical values that will bring us to the realisation of Herodotus' historiographical importance: we must see him as enacting in narrative the social memory of his own generation. Vorwort This text brings new approaches to Herodotus' sources and to his methods of collecting information, to the logic of his narrative and to his understanding of human behaviour. Zusammenfassung This text brings new approaches to Herodotus' sources and to his methods of collecting information, to the logic of his narrative and to his understanding of human behaviour. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Maps Introduction 1 The World of Herodotus2 'Enquiry' and 'Social Memory'3 The Logic of Narrative4 Why Things Happen 5 Mapping Other Worlds 6 Reading HerodotusNotes A note on Further Reading Index

Product details

• Authors: John Gould, Gould John
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.2000
• EAN: 9781853996054
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-605-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Series: BCP Paperback S.; BCP Paperback S.; BCPaperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Antike, Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Altes Griechenland, European History, Vorzeit, Frühgeschichte vor Christi Geburt, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory