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Cover 1 Interpreting Herodotus 4 Copyright 5 Acknowledgements 6 Contents 8 List of Illustrations 10 List of Abbreviations and Conventions 12 List of Contributors 16 1: Introduction 20 THE UNITY OF THE HISTORIES 21 SOURCES AND CONTEXTS 23 THE PRESENT IN THE PAST 27 2: Making Logoi: Herodotus’ Book 2 and Hecataeus of Miletus 36 FORNARA’S CRITIQUE OF BOOK 2 37 FORMAL ASPECTS OF BOOK 2: CROSS-REFERENCING, CITATION, AUTHORIAL PRESENCE 39 HERODOTUS AND THE LOGOI OF HECATAEUS 41 HECATAEUS, HERODOTUS, AND CTESIAS: ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE LOGOPOIOS 69 3: The Lesson of Book 2 72 A VERY HERODOTEAN HELEN-LOGOS 73 HERODOTUS’ OTHER GEOGRAPHIC AND ETHNOGRAPHIC LOGOI 80 SOME CONCLUSIONS CONCERNING BOOK 2 82 ENRICHMENT OF BARE HISTORICAL NARRATIVE BY TECHNIQUES DRAWN FROM HOMERIC EPIC? 82 HECATAEUS 88 THE DIVERSITY OF HERODOTUS’ HISTORIES 90 4: Herodotus’ Book 2 and the Unity of the Work 94 INTRODUCTION 94 BOOK 2 AND HERODOTUS’ GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPTION 95 BOOK 2 AND CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER IN HERODOTUS’ HISTORIES 98 THE ETHNOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF EGYPT AND THEIR IMPORTANCE FOR THE HISTORIES AS A WHOLE 102 THE HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF EGYPT FROM A CONCEPTUAL POINT OF VIEW 108 Part I: From Min to Seth

Author
THOMAS HARRISON and ELIZABETH IRWIN
Published
2018
Language
EN

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