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A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories (Hardcover, HPOD)
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A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories (Hardcover, HPOD)
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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'
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 fascinating and often
surprising as the original itself, Sean Sheehan goes beyond
conventional Herodotus introductions and instead looks at the
various interpretations of the work, which themselves shed light on
the original. With text boxes highlighting key topics and indices
of passages, this volume is an essential guide for students whether
reading Herodotus for the first time, or returning to revisit this
crucial text for later research.
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