In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the
Persian invasions of 490-480 BC Herodotus sought to communicate not
only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and
perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their
interpretation afterwards. Much as the contemporary sophists strove
to discover truth about the invisible, Herodotus was acutely
concerned to uncover hidden human motivations, whose depiction was
vital to his project of recounting and explaining the past. Emily
Baragwanath explores the sophisticated narrative techniques with
which Herodotus represented this most elusive variety of historical
knowledge. Thus he was able to tell a lucid story of the past while
nonetheless exposing the methodological and epistemological
challenges it presented. Baragwanath illustrates and analyses a
range of these techniques over the course of a wide selection of
Herodotus' most intriguing narratives - from those on Athenian
democracy and tyranny to Leonidas and Thermopylae - and thus
supplies a method for reading the Histories more generally.
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