Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion (Paperback)
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Short Description for Herodotus in Context An examination of Herodotus' Histories in the context of the intellectual developments of his time.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 26 April 2006
- Format: Paperback 332 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Science: General Issues | History Of Science | General & World History | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780521012416 ISBN 10: 0521012414
- Sales rank: 599,300
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Full description for Herodotus in Context
Herodotus called his work an enquiry and wrote before 'history' was a separate discipline. Coming from Halicarnassus, at the crossroads between the Persian and Athenian spheres of influence, he combined the culture of Athens with that of the more pluralistic and less ethnocentric cities of east Greece. Alive to the implications of this cultural background for Herodotus' thought, this study explores the much neglected contemporary connotations and context of the Histories, looking at them as part of the intellectual climate of his time. Concentrating on Herodotus' ethnography, geography and accounts of natural wonders, and examining his methods of argument and persuasion, it sees the Histories, which appear virtually without antecedents, as a product of the late fifth-century world of the natural scientists, medical writers and sophists - a world of controversy and debate.
