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Herodotus, Explorer of the Past - Three Essays (Hardcover)
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Herodotus, Explorer of the Past - Three Essays (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Why does a power expand and become an empire? Writing in the early
years of the Peloponnesian War, Herodotus gave Athens full credit
for saving Greece from Persia, but also identified the city's
expansion as a new manifestation of imperialist aggression. In this
skillful analysis of Herodotus' intellectual world, J.A.S. Evans
combines historical, anthropological, and literary techniques to
show how the war affected not only the great thinker's view of
Persian aggression and of the people involved in it but also the
shape of the Histories themselves. The first essay discusses
Herodotus' investigation of imperialism, and the second finds the
beginnings of biography in his descriptions of individuals,
particularly in his well-crafted portrait of Cyrus. The third essay
describes the "Father of History" as a collector and evaluator of
local oral stories, sources for the written work that was destined
by its scope and unifying plan to introduce a new genre. Evans
draws analogies between Herodotus' methods and those of oral
historians in other cultures, particularly in precolonial Africa.
He also explores comparisons between Herodotus in Egypt and
sixteenth-and seventeenth-century European ethnologists in the
Americas. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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