K. Scarlett Kingsley

Herodotus and the Presocratics (eBook, ePUB)

Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century BCE

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009338516
• Artikelnr.: 70910337

Autorenporträt

K. Scarlett Kingsley is an assistant professor of Classics at Agnes Scott College. She is the co-editor, with Tim Rood and Giustina Monti, of The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography (2022), and is currently co-authoring The End of the Histories: Land, Wealth, and Empire in Herodotus (forthcoming) with Tim Rood.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: transtextual histories: history, philosophy, and intellectual culture
2. Relativism, king of all
3. The pull of tradition: egoism and Persian revolution
4. History peri physeos
5. Physis on the battlefield
6. Historical inquiry and presocratic epistemology
7. Herodotean philosophy.