Heroes in Herodotus
Heroes in Herodotus

Author: Elizabeth Vandiver

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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This examination of Herodotus' references to mythological heroes reveals new aspects of his historiography and of his literary technique. In the development of Greek prose, Herodotus lies between the early logographers and later historians, thematically and stylistically as well as chronologically. His use of heroes exemplifies the intermediate nature of his work. As historiographical data, the heroes serve as chronological reference points, provide aetiologies for families and cities, and explain later customs and courses of action. As literary devices, the heroes operate as symbolic elements that stress important points in the text, place foreign countries within a comprehensible context, and contribute to the characterization of individuals such as Leonidas, Demaratus, and Xerxes.

A World of Heroes
A World of Heroes

Author: Homer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0521736463

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A reader for intermediate students of ancient Greek, introducing three of ancient Greece's most important authors, Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles.

Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus
Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus

Author: , Emily Baragwanath

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-09-06

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0199693978

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This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories.

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

Author: Gregory Nagy

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2020-01-10

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 0674244192

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What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars
Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars

Author: Jon D. Mikalson

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2004-07-21

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0807862010

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The two great Persian invasions of Greece, in 490 and 480-79 B.C., both repulsed by the Greeks, provide our best opportunity for understanding the interplay of religion and history in ancient Greece. Using the Histories of Herodotus as well as other historical and archaeological sources, Jon Mikalson shows how the Greeks practiced their religion at this pivotal moment in their history. In the period of the invasions and the years immediately after, the Greeks--internationally, state by state, and sometimes individually--turned to their deities, using religious practices to influence, understand, and commemorate events that were threatening their very existence. Greeks prayed and sacrificed; made and fulfilled vows to the gods; consulted oracles; interpreted omens and dreams; created cults, sanctuaries, and festivals; and offered dozens of dedications to their gods and heroes--all in relation to known historical events. By portraying the human situations and historical circumstances in which Greeks practiced their religion, Mikalson advances our knowledge of the role of religion in fifth-century Greece and reveals a religious dimension of the Persian Wars that has been previously overlooked.

The History of Herodotus, Volume 4
The History of Herodotus, Volume 4

Author: Herodotus

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-04-27

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781354762509

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The Histories Book 7: Polymnia
The Histories Book 7: Polymnia

Author: Herodotus

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1681462966

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Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC (c.484 - 425 BC). He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories-his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced-is a record of his "inquiry", being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information. The Histories, were divided into nine books, named after the nine Muses: the "Muse of History", Clio, representing the first book, then Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope for books 2 to 9, respectively.

Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative
Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 9004383344

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In this collected volume fourteen experts in the fields of Classics and Ancient History study the textual strategies used by Herodotus and Livy when recounting the disastrous battles at Thermopylae and Cannae. Literary, linguistic and historical approaches are used (often in combination) in order to enhance and enrich the interpretation of the accounts, which for obvious reasons confronted the authors with a special challenge. Chapters drawing a comparison with other battle narratives and with other genres help to establish genre-specific elements in ancient historiography, and draw attention to the particular techniques employed by Herodotus and Livy in their war narratives.

Herodotean Narrative and Discourse
Herodotean Narrative and Discourse

Author: Mabel L. Lang

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780674389854

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Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the "Father of History" pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches--so characteristic of folk literature--played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologies and geographies that he knew. Story form and speeches attributed to historical persons, she demonstrates, follow traditional formulas. She also studies in detail Herodotus' distinctive use of proverbs and rhetorical questions. Throughout, Lang draws on a variety of materials and offers particularly revealing comparisons of Homeric and Herodotean styles. This analysis of the evidence for oral composition in Herodotus' Histories opens a new perspective for students and scholars of Greek history.

Travels with Herodotus
Travels with Herodotus

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-11-11

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307548236

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From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of the Greek historiographer helped shape his own view of an increasingly globalized world. Written with supreme eloquence and a constant eye to the global undercurrents that have shaped the last half-century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey across continents.