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Herodots Welt
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Author : Reinhold Bichler
language : de
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-08-29
Herodots Welt written by Reinhold Bichler and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-29 with History categories.
"Wer über Herodot schreibt, steht in bester Gesellschaft, läuft aber gerade dadurch Gefahr, zu langweilen oder zu verärgern. Denn Neues zu bringen fällt schwer. So viel Literatur ist schon über die Historien veröffentlicht worden, daß mit jedem weiteren Anlauf fast zwangsläufig Bekanntes wiederholt und viel Mühe fremder Forschung ignoriert wird. Allein, die gedankliche Tiefe eines Autors, über dessen Leben wir so wenig wissen, wird immer wieder dazu drängen, Herodot ins Zentrum der Reflexion über Grundfragen der historischen Wissenschaft zu stellen. Kein anderes Werk des Altertums brachte es gleichermaßen zustande, die ganze Oikumene in ihrer Vielfalt gedanklich zu erfassen und das Leben der Völker, ihre unterschiedlichen Sitten und kulturellen Leistungen, ihre Taten und ihr historisches Geschick zu betrachten, um daraus einen Maßstab für die Vorstellung von der eigenen Geschichte zu gewinnen und diese gleichzeitig in einer Zusammenschau zu erfassen und darzustellen, deren erzählerische Anmut ihrem geschichtsphilosophischen Gehalt ebenbürtig ist." (R. Bichler)
Herodotus Narrator Scientist Historian
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Author : Ewen Bowie
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Herodotus Narrator Scientist Historian written by Ewen Bowie and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Recently the importance for Herodotus' work of contemporary medical and sophistic thought and techniques of argument has been widely recognised, as long had been his dependence on and difference from earlier geographical and ethnographic writing. This volume focuses on the place of these interests in his investigatory techniques and sets them alongside his many narrative skills, from superficially traditonal battle narrative and reworking of Greek or non-Greek traditions that border on myth to the structuring of narrative by highlighting the life of objects, and addresses such fundamental issues as how he chooses between competing explanations and how far he valued truth. The book tackles many of the basic issues that confront any attempt to understand Herodotus' work.
Interpreting Herodotus
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Author : Thomas Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-08
Interpreting Herodotus written by Thomas Harrison 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 2018-03-08 with History categories.
Charles W. Fornara's Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay (Oxford, 1971) was a landmark publication in the study of the great Greek historian. Well-known in particular for its main thesis that the Histories should be read against the background of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars during which it was written, its insight and penetrating discussion extend to a range of other issues, from the relative unity of Herodotus' work and the relationship between his ethnographies and historical narrative, to the themes and motifs that criss-cross the Histories and how 'history became moral and Herodotus didactic'. Interpreting Herodotus brings together a team of leading Herodotean scholars to look afresh at the themes of Fornara's seminal Essay in the light of the explosion of scholarship on the Histories in the intervening years, focusing particularly on how we can interpret Herodotus' work in terms of the context in which he wrote. What does it mean to talk of the unity of the Histories, or Herodotus' 'moral' purpose? How can we reconstruct the context in which the Histories were written and published? And in what sense might the Histories constitute a 'warning' for his own, or for subsequent, generations? In developing and interrogating Fornara's influential ideas for a new generation of scholars, the volume not only asserts their enduring value to scholarship, but also offers a wealth of insights and new perspectives on the 'Father of History' that attests to the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary engagement with Herodotus.
Herodotus And Imperial Greek Literature
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Author : N. Bryant Kirkland
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
Herodotus And Imperial Greek Literature written by N. Bryant Kirkland 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 2022 with History categories.
"Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, this book analyzes the entanglements of criticism and imitation in select works by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Dio of Prusa, Lucian, and Pausanias. It offers a new angle on Herodotus's intellectual afterlife, channeled through evocations both explicit and implicit in literary criticism, the moral essay, public oration, satire and periegetic literature. Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature shifts focus from reputation only - what ancient authors explicitly had to say about Herodotus - toward the kinetic interrelation between Herodotus's reputation and his active reworking across genre and mode. It demonstrates how Herodotus was strategically construed and often implicitly summoned - as fabulist, classicist, moralizer, and evasive intellectual - and how such Herodotean presences played to the wider purposes of Imperial writers. Herodotus became a touchstone for writers concerned with a nimbus of questions that the Histories first helped to articulate. Imperial Greeks found Herodotus useful in puzzling through questions of authorial persona, mimesis, the relationship between aesthetic and ethical criticism, the self, and the contingent definitions of Hellenism under Rome. Ultimately, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature widens an incomplete reception history and reads bi-focally, examining how attention to the presence of Herodotus in various texts unveils new layers of meaning in those works, while also showing how ancient receptions offer insight into the Histories"--
Brill S Companion To Herodotus
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Author : Egbert J. Bakker
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2002-05-31
Brill S Companion To Herodotus written by Egbert J. Bakker and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-31 with History categories.
Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, religious, moral and social influences, but actively contributing to the great debates of their time. Their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. This Companion offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all these current approaches to Herodotus’ remarkable work.
Strategies Of Persuasion In Herodotus Histories And Genesis Kings
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Author : Eva Tyrell
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Strategies Of Persuasion In Herodotus Histories And Genesis Kings written by Eva Tyrell and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Strategies of Persuasion is the first comparative study of narrative means of persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings in the Hebrew Bible. Eva Tyrell perceives rhetorical techniques of persuasion as a window into ancient historical thought.
Afterlives Of Ancient Rock Cut Monuments In The Near East
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Author : Jonathan Ben-Dov
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-09-27
Afterlives Of Ancient Rock Cut Monuments In The Near East written by Jonathan Ben-Dov and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-27 with History categories.
This volume gathers articles by archeologists, art historians, and philologists concerned with the afterlives of ancient rock-cut monuments throughout the Near East. Contributions analyze how such monuments were actively reinterpreted and manipulated long after they were first carved.
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.
Herodotus, the 'Father of History', is infamously known for having employed elements more akin to mythological tales than to unvarnished 'truth' in translating his historical research into narrative form. While these narratives provide valuable source material, he could not have surmised the hostile reception his work would receive in later generations. This mythical aspect of the Histories led many successors, most notoriously Plutarch, to blame Herodotus for spinning far-fetched lies, and to set him apart as an untrustworthy historian. Echoes of the same criticism resounded in twentieth-century scholarship, which found it difficult to reconcile Herodotus' ambition to write historical stories 'as they really happened' with the choices he made in shaping their form. This volume brings together 13 original articles written by specialists in the fields of ancient Greek literature and history. Each article seeks to review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the Histories' mythological elements. These contributions throw new light on Herodotus' talents as a narrator, underline his versatility in shaping his work, and reveal how he was inspired by and constantly engaged with his intellectual milieu. The Herodotus who emerges is a Herculean figure, dealing with a vast quantity of material, struggling with it as with the Hydra's many-growing heads, and ultimately rising with consummate skill to the organisational and presentational challenges it posed. The volume ultimately concludes that far from being unrelated to the 'historical' aspects of Herodotus' text, the 'mythic' elements prove vital to his presentation of history.
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.
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.