A Guide to Reading Herodotus Histories Sheehan SeanPaperback
A Guide to Reading Herodotus Histories Sheehan SeanPaperback Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. This volume interrogates the various ways…
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A Guide to Reading Herodotus Histories Sheehan SeanPaperback
Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our Ur-historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory.
Our readings can bring out various guises of Herodotus himself: an author with the eye of a travel writer and the mind of an investigative journalist; a globalist, enlightened but superstitious; a rambling storyteller but a prose stylist; the so-called 'father of history' but in antiquity also labelled the 'father of lies'; both geographer and gossipmonger; both entertainer and an author whom social and cultural historians read and admire.Guiding students chapter-by-chapter through approaches as
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Histories Herodotus