Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture: Literary Studies in the Reception of the Histories

Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture: Literary Studies in the Reception of the Histories
ISBN-10
0199653097
ISBN-13
9780199653096
Category
History
Pages
287
Language
English
Published
2014-02
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Jessica Priestley

Description

Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' Histories from the early and middle Hellenistic period. Through discussions of contemporary discourse relating to the Persian Wars, geography, literary style, and biography, it nuances our understanding of how ancient readers reacted to and appropriated the Histories.

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