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University of Michigan Press, 2001. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with black cloth to boards and metallic blue lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (6 x 1.3 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, general index and an index of passages. 336 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. As he explores the causes of the East-West conflict from its most remote antecedents, Herodotus includes conflicting traditions about different historical periods as well as apparently tangential descriptions of the customs of faraway peoples. What was his aim in combining such diverse material? Rosaria Vignolo Munson argues that Herodotus' aim was two-fold: to use historical narrative to illuminate the present and to describe barbarian customs so that the Greeks might understand themselves. Herodotus assumes the role of advisor to his audience, acting as a master of metaphor and oracular speech and as an intellectual fully aware of new philosophical…
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Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus Hardcover - 2001
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- Title Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus
- Author Rosaria Vignolo Munson
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor
- Date 2001
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780472112036 / 0472112031
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.26 x 1.22 in (23.67 x 15.90 x 3.10 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Library of Congress subjects History, Ancient - Historiography, Herodotus
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002280265
- Dewey Decimal Code 938.007
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