Herodotus and Hellenistic culture : literary studies in the reception of the Histories /

In a series of literary studies, Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' 'Histories' through the extant written record of the early and middle Hellenistic period. Responses to the Histories were rich and varied, and the range of Hellenistic writers resp...

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Tác giả chính: Priestley, Jessica (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Mục lục:
  • Biographical traditions
  • The great and the marvellous
  • Herodotus and Hellenistic geographies
  • The Persian wars : new versions and new contexts
  • The prose Homer of history
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix : Aristarchus' Commentary on Herodotus.