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Jennifer T. Roberts

Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction

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Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words; more narrowly, he determined to discover the causes of the wars between Greece and Persia and to explain them to his fellow Greeks.In his hands, the Greeks' unforeseeable defeat of the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes, with their vast hosts, made for fascinating storytelling. Influenced by the work of the natural scientists and philosophers of his own and earlier eras, Herodo… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-162023-2
  • EAN: 9780191620232
  • Produktnummer: 13923386
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 18'411 KB
  • Abbildungen: c. 15 black and white halftones

Über den Autor


Jennifer Roberts was educated at Yale and has taught since 1992 at the City University of New York, where she directs the doctoral program in Ancient History at the Graduate Center. She has published widely in the field of Greek history and historiography and has particular interests in ancient and modern democracy, Herodotus, Thucydides, and ancient warfare. She is particularly concerned with the history of attitudes towards social justice and its manifestations ingovernment and law.

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