Herodotus and the Presocratics - Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century Bce

"Explores Herodotus' Histories in dialogue with contemporary philosophical debates. Combining close readings, reader reception, and genre studies, it expands our understanding of Herodotus' context and restores the Histories' place in Presocratic thought. In addition, the book elucidates philosophy's subsequent engagement with Herodotus' Histories"--

List of contents

1. Introduction: transtextual histories: history, philosophy, and intellectual culture; 2. Relativism, king of all; 3. The pull of tradition: egoism and Persian revolution; 4. History peri physeos; 5. Physis on the battlefield; 6. Historical inquiry and presocratic epistemology; 7. Herodotean philosophy.

About the author

K. Scarlett Kingsley is an assistant professor of Classics at Agnes Scott College. She is the co-editor, with Tim Rood and Giustina Monti, of The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022), and is currently co-authoring The End of the Histories: Land, Wealth, and Empire in Herodotus (forthcoming) with Tim Rood.

Summary

Explores Herodotus' Histories in dialogue with contemporary philosophical debates. Combining close readings, reader reception, and genre studies, it expands our understanding of Herodotus' context and restores the Histories' place in Presocratic thought. In addition, the book elucidates philosophy's subsequent engagement with Herodotus' Histories.

Product details

• Authors: K Scarlett Kingsley, K. Scarlett Kingsley, K. Scarlett (Agnes Scott College Kingsley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2024
• EAN: 9781009338547
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0933854-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Ancient Greece, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Historiography, Ancient World, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Persian Empire, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, Interest age: from c 17 years, c 332 BCE to c 630 CE (Egyptian Greco-Roman period), For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents