Brill's Companion to Herodotus - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 9004169660 ISBN 13: 9789004169661

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2012

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Herodotus’ outstanding achievements as a literary figure, intellectual, historian and ethnographer have in recent years come to be appreciated with much greater depth and subtlety. This Companion offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of current approaches to Herodotus’ remarkable work.

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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 na ve 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.

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• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9004169660
• ISBN 13: 9789004169661
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 652
• Herausgeber: Bakker Egbert J., Wees Hans, Jong Irene