Reading Herodotus

A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories
Herausgeber: Irwin, Elizabeth; Greenwood, Emily

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Produktbeschreibung

This 2007 text contains twelve specially commissioned essays on the historical and literary interpretation of Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9780521201025
• ISBN-10: 0521201020
• Artikelnr.: 32467261

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Elizabeth Irwin and Emily Greenwood; 1. 'What's in a name?'
and exploring the comparable: onomastics, ethnography and kratos in Thrace
(5.1-2 and 3-10) Elizabeth Irwin; 2. The Paeonians: 5.11-17 Robin Osborne;
3. Narrating ambiguity: murder and Macedonian alliances: 5.17-22 David
Fearn; 4. Bridging the narrative: 5.23-7 Emily Greenwood; 5. The trouble
with the Ionians: Herodotus and the beginning of the Ionian Revolt
(5.28-38.1) Rosaria Munson; 6. The Dorieus episode and the Ionian Revolt:
5.42-8 Simon Hornblower; 7. Aristagoras: 5.49-55.97 Christopher Pelling; 8.
Structure and significance: 5.55-69 Vivienne Gray; 9. Athens and Aegina:
5.82-9 Johannes Haubold; 10. 'Saving' Greece from the 'ignominy' of
tyranny? The 'famous' and 'wonderful' speech of Socles John Moles; 11.
Cyprus and Onesilus: an interlude of freedom (5.104, 108-16) Anastasia
Serghidou; 12. The Fourth Dorian Invasion and the Ionian Revolt (5.76-126)
John Henderson.