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CONTENTS 6 PREFACE 10 ABBREVIATIONS 12 Introduction 16 The Nature of the Investigation 16 The 'Difference' of Herodotus 19 PART ONE: Rhetoric: How Herodotus Recreates the Past 24 1 A New Genre, a New Rhetoric 26 The Promise of the Proem 26 The Rhetoric of History: Narrative and Speech 30 Nonverbal Behaviours 39 Talking to the Reader 43 Beginnings 48 Endings 57 Conclusion 63 PART TWO: The Presentation of His Research: The Historian's Power 66 Introduction to Part Two 68 2 Selection: Explicit Omission 72 Research Problems 74 Reticence 77 Inventory 82 3 Alternative Versions: The Reader's Autonomy 89 Inventory 97 4 Disputation: Herodotus' Use of Written Sources 104 Hecataeus 106 Hellenic Views 108 Hellenic Poets 112 Barbarian Authorities 113 Inventory of Herodotean Polemic 117 PART THREE: Poiesis: How Herodotus Makes Sense of Historical Facts 122 Introduction to Part Three 124 5 The Place of Chronology 127 6 Limit, Propriety, and Transgression: A Structuring Concept in the Histories 139 'Limit,' 'Transgression,' and Related Metaphors 140 The Subject of Women 148 Moral Principles in History 153 7 Ethnography as Access to History 158 Egyptians 160 Persians 165 Scythians 168 Greeks 170 8

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Author

Erodoto.;Lateiner, Donald

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction