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Herodotus and Hellenistic culture : literary studies in the reception of the Histories
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ISBN: 9780199653096 0199653097 1306549027 0191766453 0191510165 9780191510168 9780191766459 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Jessica 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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Brill's companion to the reception of Herodotus in antiquity and beyond
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ISSN: 22131426 ISBN: 9789004272293 9004272291 9789004299849 900429984X Year: 2016 Volume: 6 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill,

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond offers new insights on the reception and cultural transmission of one of the most controversial and influential texts to have survived from Classical Antiquity. Herodotus’ Histories has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired and criticized across diverse genres, historical periods, and geographical boundaries. This companion, edited by Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali, examines the reception of Herodotus in a range of cultural contexts, from the fifth century BC to the twentieth century AD. The essays consider key topics such as Herodotus' place in the Western historiographical tradition, translation of and scholarly engagement with the Histories , and the use of the Histories as a model for describing and interpreting cultural and geographical material.

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