K Scarlett Kingsley

Herodotus and the Presocratics

Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century Bce

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Produktbeschreibung

"Explores Herodotus' Histories in dialogue with contemporary philosophical debates. Combining close readings, reader reception, and genre studies, it expands our understanding of Herodotus' context and restores the Histories' place in Presocratic thought. In addition, the book elucidates philosophy's subsequent engagement with Herodotus' Histories"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781009338547
• ISBN-10: 1009338544
• Artikelnr.: 70050668

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.