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Herodotus in Context

Name: Herodotus in Context
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521662598
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Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion

Autor: Rosalind Thomas

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Cambridge University Press

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Herodotus called his work an enquiry and wrote before 'history' was a separate discipline. Coming fr...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Rosalind Thomas

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2000

strony

332

EAN

9780521662598

ISBN

0521662591

Enbook ID

02039701

Wydawca

Cambridge University Press

Waga

665

Wymiary

159 x 236 x 27

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Herodotus called his work an enquiry and wrote before 'history' was a separate discipline. Coming from Halicarnassus, at the crossroads between the Persian and Athenian spheres of influence, he combined the culture of Athens with that of the more pluralistic and less ethnocentric cities of east Greece. Alive to the implications of this cultural background for Herodotus' thought, this study explores the much neglected contemporary connotations and context of the Histories, looking at them as part of the intellectual climate of his time. Concentrating on Herodotus' ethnography, geography and accounts of natural wonders, and examining his methods of argument and persuasion, it sees the Histories, which appear virtually without antecedents, as a product of the late fifth-century world of the natural scientists, medical writers and sophists - a world of controversy and debate.