Herodotus - Narrator, Scientist, Historian

Recently the importance for Herodotus' work of contemporary medical and sophistic thought and techniques of argument has been widely recognised, as long had been his dependence on and difference from earlier geographical and ethnographic writing. This volume focuses on the place of these interests in his investigatory techniques and sets them alongside his many narrative skills, from superficially traditonal battle narrative and reworking of Greek...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110581531
• ISBN13: 9783110581539
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"