Herodotus: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780199587599 | 0199587590
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 8/15/2013
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The ancient historian Herodotus, the Father of History, is also considered a great anthropologist. In his account of the Persian invasions of Greece in the fifth century BCE, he searches for the forces that transformed Persians from an underprivileged nation into the rulers of the largest empire of antiquity. In his Histories , he explores the non-Hellenic peoples that were either conquered by the Persians or managed to resist or elude their aggression, such as the Lydians, Egyptians, Libyans, Scythians, and Thracians, and describes... MORE
Introduction
Rosaria V. Munson
Physis and Historie
1. The Boundaries of Earth, James S. Romm
2. Herodotus and Analogy, Aldo Corcella
3. Herodotus and Historia, Catherine Darbo-Peschanski
The Homeric wanderer
4. Odysseus and the Historians, John Marincola
Women in Herodotus
5. Exit Atossa: Images of Women in Greek Historiography about Persia, Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg and Addendun by Amelie Kuhrt
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Rosaria Munson is Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College where she has been teaching since 1990.
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