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Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction
Jennifer T. Roberts
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| #859556 in Books | Oxford University Press USA | 2011-07-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 4.40 x.40 x6.70l,.26 | File type: PDF | 144 pages | Oxford University Press USA||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An Outstanding Introduction|By Hungry-4-the-Word|This is a highly readable, judicious treatment of Herodotus. The author emphasizes Herodotus as a liminal figure, appearing at the transitionary stage between lyric epic, and works of prose; between a mainly oral culture, and that of a more literal mindset; between East and West; between folklore and hard history. In the face of|||"Built on a vast but unobtrusive bedrock of fine scholarship, its research up-to-date, its judgments and interpretations well-balanced, its obvious affection for its subject never getting in the way of a necessary correction, its tone as amused, ironic, and h
Hailed by Cicero as "the father of history," Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveler who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words, in particular, the wars between Greece and Persia. In his hands, the Greeks' unforeseeable defeat of the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes with their vast hosts made for fascinating storytelling. Influenced by the work of the natural scientists and philoso...
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