Emily Baragwanath 
Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus [EPUB ebook] 

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In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC, Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the contemporary sophists strove to discover truth about the invisible, Herodotus was acutely concerned to uncover hidden human motivations, whose depiction was vital to hisproject of recounting and explaining the past. Emily Baragwanath explores the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represented this most elusive variety of historical knowledge. Thus he was able to tell a lucid story of the past while nonetheless exposing the methodological andepistemological challenges it presented. Baragwanath illustrates and analyses a range of these techniques over the course of a wide selection of Herodotus‘ most intriguing narratives – from those on Athenian democracy and tyranny to Leonidas and Thermopylae – and thus supplies a method for reading the Histories more generally.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780191607868 ● Verlag OUP Oxford ● Erscheinungsjahr 2008 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2505568 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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