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Sean Sheehan

A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories

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Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. 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. 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' bu… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4742-9268-9
  • EAN: 9781474292689
  • Produktnummer: 26132224
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 8'103 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 41 bw line drawings & text boxes

Über den Autor


Sean Sheehan is an independent scholar, having previously taught in the UK and abroad. His publications include The British Museum Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece (2002), Socrates: Life and Times (2007), Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Sophocles' Oedipus the King: A Reader's Guide (Bloomsbury, 2012).

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