A Guide To Reading Herodotus Histories
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A Guide To Reading Herodotus Histories
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Author : Sean Sheehan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-05
A Guide To Reading Herodotus Histories written by Sean Sheehan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-05 with History categories.
Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our Ur-historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. Our readings can bring out various guises of Herodotus himself: an author with the eye of a travel writer and the mind of an investigative journalist; a globalist, enlightened but superstitious; a rambling storyteller but a prose stylist; the so-called 'father of history' but in antiquity also labelled the 'father of lies'; both geographer and gossipmonger; both entertainer and an author whom social and cultural historians read and admire. Guiding students chapter-by-chapter through approaches as fascinating and often surprising as the original itself, Sean Sheehan goes beyond conventional Herodotus introductions and instead looks at the various interpretations of the work, which themselves shed light on the original. With text boxes highlighting key topics and indices of passages, this volume is an essential guide for students whether reading Herodotus for the first time, or returning to revisit this crucial text for later research.
Reading Herodotus
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Author : Elizabeth Irwin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-23
Reading Herodotus written by Elizabeth Irwin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
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. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and the overarching structure of Herodotus' narrative. This collection of twelve essays by internationally renowned scholars represents an important contribution to scholarship on Herodotus and will serve as an essential research tool for all those interested in Book 5 of the Histories, the interpretation of Herodotean narrative, and the historiography of the Ionian Revolt.
Myth Truth And Narrative In Herodotus
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Author : , Emily Baragwanath
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-06
Myth Truth And Narrative In Herodotus written by , Emily Baragwanath and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-06 with History categories.
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.
The Cambridge Companion To Herodotus
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Author : Carolyn Dewald
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-06-08
The Cambridge Companion To Herodotus written by Carolyn Dewald and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century BC. Moreover, research has shown that Herodotus is a sophisticated and at times even ironic narrator, and a pioneer and serious practitioner of historical research at a time when the Greeks' traditions about their past were still the fluid transmissions and memories of a largely oral society. This Companion provides a series of accessible chapters, written by distinguished scholars, illuminating many aspects of Herodotus' work: his skill in language and his narrative art; his intellectual preconceptions; his working methods and techniques; his attitude towards nature and the gods; his attitude towards foreign cultures and peoples; and his view of human life and human history.
A History Of Histories
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Author : John Burrow
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2007-12-06
A History Of Histories written by John Burrow and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-06 with History categories.
This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past 2500 years, treating the practise of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the cultural history of Europe and America. It magnificently brings to life the work of historians from the Greeks to the present, including Livy, Tacitus, Bede, Froissart, Clarendon, Gibbon, Macaulay, Michelet, Prescott and Parkman, explaining their distinctive qualities and allowing the modern reader to appreciate and enjoy them. But is also examines subjects as diverse as the new perspectives brought about by the rise of Rome, the interests of medieval chroniclers, the introduction into historical narratives of what the eighteenth century called 'sentiment', the effects of Romanticism and the emergence towards the end of the nineteenth century of an historical profession. It sets out to be not the history of an academic discipline, but a history of choice: the choice of pasts, and the ways they have been demarcated, investigated, presented and even sometimes learned from as they have changed according to political, religious, cultural and (often most importantly) patriotic circumstances. The book also aims to change our perceptions of the main turning points in the history of history. It dispels persistent myths, such as that the ancient historians wrote only contemporary history and had a purely cyclical view of time, that the eighteenth century lacked understanding of the past and that the critical study of sources began only with Ranke in the nineteenth century. The ideas that historians have had about both their own times and their civilization emerge freshly and often unexpectedly. Burrow argues that looking at the history of history is one of the most interesting ways we can try to understand the past. Nothing on the scale of or with the ambition of his book has yet been attempted in English.
The History Of Herodotus Translated From The Greek By Isaac Littlebury
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Author : Herodotus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1737
The History Of Herodotus Translated From The Greek By Isaac Littlebury written by Herodotus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1737 with Greece categories.
Reading Herodotus
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Author : Debra Hamel
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-09-15
Reading Herodotus written by Debra Hamel and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Hamel takes us on a delightful, audacious romp through The History of the Persian Wars. Debra Hamel’s book is a lively introduction to The History of the Persian Wars, Herodotus's account of Persia's expansion under four kings—Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes—and its eventual collision with the city-states of Greece. The History can be a long slog for modern readers, but it is full of salacious tales about sex, violent death, divine prophecies, and cannibals. Following the structure of the original work, Hamel leads the reader through a colorful tour of the central stories that compose The History. She highlights the more interesting and important parts of the story while providing readers who are new to Herodotus with the background information necessary to appreciate the author’s wide-ranging subject matter. At once academic and cheeky, the experience of this book is like reading Herodotus while simultaneously consulting a history of Greece and a scholarly commentary on the text.
Ocr Anthology For Classical Greek As And A Level 2026 2028
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Author : Matthew Barr
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2025-05-29
Ocr Anthology For Classical Greek As And A Level 2026 2028 written by Matthew Barr and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-29 with Literary Collections categories.
The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for examination 2026–28 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are: AS and A Level Groups 1 & 3 Herodotus, Histories, Book 7: 207–226 Plato, Crito 43a–48d Homer, Odyssey, Book 16: 201–451 Sophocles, Electra 1–85 and 254–416 A Level Groups 2 & 4 Herodotus, Histories, Book 8: 6–26 Plato, Crito 48d–end Lucian, Charon 1–5, 15–21 Homer, Odyssey, Book 22: 1–238 Sophocles, Electra 516–763 Aristophanes, Birds 1–259 Supporting resources are available on the Companion Website: https://bloomsbury.pub/OCReditions-2026-2028.
On The War For Greek Freedom
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Author : Herodotus
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 2003-03-15
On The War For Greek Freedom written by Herodotus and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-15 with History categories.
Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgment presents those selections that comprise Herodotus’ historical narrative. These are meticulously annotated, and supplemented with a chronology of the Archaic Age, Historical Epilogue, glossary of main characters and places, index of proper names, and maps.
A Commentary On Herodotus Books I Iv
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Author : David Asheri
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-30
A Commentary On Herodotus Books I Iv written by David Asheri and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-30 with History categories.
Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it. This commentary by leading scholars, originally published in Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and is now presented for English readers.