Herodotean Narrative and Discourse

by Mabel Lang

Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the "Father of History" pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches--so characteristic of folk literature--played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674389859
• ISBN13: 9780674389854
• Release Date: May 1984
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"