Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus
by Emily Baragwanath
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Oxford University Press, 2008. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (8.6 x 1.2 x 5.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes list of abbreviations, references, general index, and an index of passages cited. 400 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-341) and indexes.
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- Title
- Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus
- Author
- Emily Baragwanath
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
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- New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 019923129X
- ISBN 13
- 9780199231294
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- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- 2008. 400p. Hardback. Series: Oxford Classical Monographs. A Well-crafted And In Depth Analysis Of Motivation And Narrative In H
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Classical literature, philosophy, ancient history, Greek and Roman culture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Classical Literature;
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