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The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus Revised and Exp Edition
Contributor(s): Dewald, Carolyn (Editor), Marincola, John (Editor)

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ISBN: 0521536839     ISBN-13: 9780521536837
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Published: June 2006
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Annotation: Popularly known as the 'Father of History', Herodotus is the first major prose writer in the history of Western literature whose work has survived in full. At a time when the ancient Greeks' knowledge of the past relied on orally transmitted memories, he was a pioneering historical practitioner who explored the interplay of myth and history and the role of narrative in history. Contributors to this volume analyze Herodotus' Histories and their influence. Taking a thematic approach, they explore the Histories and their context, techniques and themes, representation of the Greeks' relationships with foreigners and reception.

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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical
Dewey: 938.030
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (1.32 lbs) 402 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region - Greece
Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
 
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Contributor Bio(s): Marincola, John: - John Marincola is Professor of Classics at Florida State University. His previous publications include Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Greek Historians (2001) and (with M. A. Flower) Herodotus: Histories Book IX (Cambridge University Press, 2002.Dewald, Carolyn: - Carolyn Dewald is Professor of History and Classics at Bard College, New York. She has written extensively on Herodotus, including the introduction and notes to Herodotus The Histories (translated by Robin Waterfield) (1998). Her other publications include Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study (forthcoming).
 
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