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Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian
About This Book
Recently the importance for Herodotus' work of contemporary medical and sophistic thought and techniques of argument has been widely recognised, as long had been his dependence on and difference from earlier geographical and ethnographic writing. This volume focuses on the place of these interests in his investigatory techniques and sets them alongside his many narrative skills, from superficially traditonal battle narrative and reworking of Greek or non-Greek traditions that border on myth to the structuring of narrative by highlighting the life of objects, and addresses such fundamental issues as how he chooses between competing explanations and how far he valued truth. The book tackles many of the basic issues that confront any attempt to understand Herodotus' work.
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Index of names and subjects
- Abdera 1, 2, 3
- Accuracy 1, 2, 3
- Achelous 1
- Adeimantus 1
- Adriatic 1, 2
- Aegean 1, 2, 3, 4
- Aegina 1, 2, 3
- Aeginetan 1, 2, 3
- Aelius Aristides 1, 2, 3
- Aeolian 1
- Aeschylus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Africa 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Agamemnon 1
- agathoergos 1, 2
- Ahuramazda 1
- aitia 1, 2
- Ajax 1
- Alcibiades 1
- Alcmaeon 1
- Alcmaeonid 1
- Alexander (see also Paris/Alexander) 1, 2
- Alexander of Abonouteichos 1
- Alexander of Macedon 1
- allegory 1, 2, 3
- Aly, Wolfgang 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Alyattes 1, 2
- Amasis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Ammonians 1
- Amosis 1
- Amphiareion 1
- analogy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Anatolia 1
- Anatolian 1
- Anaximander 1
- Antenor 1
- anxiety 1, 2
- Aphetae 1
- Apis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Apollo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Apollo Ismenius 1
- Apries 1, 2
- Arabia 1
- Arabian Gulf 1, 2, 3
- Araxes 1, 2
- Arcesilaus II 1
- Arcesilaus III 1, 2, 3
- Arcesilaus IV 1, 2
- Archidamus 1
- Archidice 1
- Archilochus 1, 2
- Argippaei 1, 2
- Argonaut 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Arimaspians 1, 2
- Arion 1, 2, 3, 4
- Aristagoras 1, 2
- Aristides of Athens 1
- aristocracy, aristocratic 1, 2, 3
- Aristophanes 1
- Aristotle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Armaios 1
- Armenia 1
- Armenian 1
- Artabanus 1, 2
- Artemis, at Ephesus 1
- Artemisia 1, 2
- Artemisium (Greece) 1, 2, 3
- Asheri, David 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- Asia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
- Asian, Asiatic 1, 2
- Asopus 1, 2, 3
- Assyria 1, 2
- Astyages 1, 2, 3
- Athena 1, 2, 3, 4
- Athenian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
- Athens 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
- Atlantic 1
- Atossa 1, 2
- Atys 1
- authenticity 1, 2
- authority 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- autopsy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Babylon, Babylonia 1, 234
- Babylonian 1, 2, 234
- Bactrians 146
- Bakker, Egbert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Baragwanath, Emily 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- barbarian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 254
- Barca, Barcaean 1, 2, 3
- Battiad 1
- battle 1
- battle-narrative 1, 2, 3
- battle-exhortation 1, 2
- Battus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- beer 1, 2
- Berenice II 1
- Beroƫ 1
- Black Sea (see also Pontus) 1, 2, 3, 4
- Boedeker, Deborah 1
- Boeotia 1, 2
- Boeotian 1, 2, 3
- Borysthenes 1
- Bosporus 1, 2, 3
- Branchidae 1
- Brindisi 1
- Callatian Indians 1, 2, 3
- Callicles 1, 2, 3
- Callicrates 1
- Calliste 1
- Cambyses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
- Heraclean patterning 1
- incest with sibling 1
- madness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
- opposition to nomos 1, 2
- Candaules 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Candaulesā wife 1, 2
- Cape of Good Hope 1
- Carian 1
- carousing pharaoh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Carthage 1, 2
- Carthaginian 1, 2, 3, 4
- cartographer 1
- Caspian Sea 1, 2, 3
- catalogue 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
- Catherine of Aragon 1
- Caucasus 1
- causality, religious 1, 2
- cause (see also predispositions) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
- ca...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Narrator
- II. Scientist
- III. Historian
- List of Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index of names and subjects