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This volume on thucydides, the most important historian of the ancient world, comprises articles by thirty leading international scholars. Poetic manifestations of animals in herodotus though no one who has read herodotus histories would seriously deny that it is primarily concerned with human affairs, a close reader will notice that, for a work about the deeds of men, 1. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations. Herodotus, writing in the second half of the 5th century bc, is the first historian of western civilisation. The cambridge companion to herodotus is am odel of its kind and its editors should be proud. Herodotus draws a polar contrast between what we might call greek. Pdf herodotus and narrative art in renaissance ferrara. Orality and homeric discourse cornell 1997 and is currently preparing a book on problems of time from homer to herodotus.
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May 31, 2002 their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. Brills companion to the reception of herodotus in antiquity. His family fled halicarnassus in the chaotic years after the grecopersian wars 499448 b. Buy brills companion to herodotus by bakker, egbert j, wees, hans, jong, irene isbn.
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