Herodotus's "Histories" can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as na?ve and "archaic", the "Histories" are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, religious, moral and social influences, but actively contributing to the great debates of their time. Their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. This text offers an in-depth overview of all these approaches to Herodotus's work.
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'"Brill's Companion to Herodotus is a very big book and it is also very good bookThe editors of Brill's Companion to Herodotus and their colleagues have provided a lucid and comprehensive guide to contemporary scholarship on Herodotus.'
Stanley M. Burstein, "BMCR, 2003.
Stanley M. Burstein, "BMCR, 2003.
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Egbert Bakker is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published Poetry in Speech: Oarlity and Homeric Discourse (Cornell 1997) and is currently preparing a book on problems of time from Homer to Herodotus. Irene de Jong is Academy Professor of Classical Greek Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on drama and Homer, most recently A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey (Cambridge 2001). She is currently editing a History of Ancient Greek Narrative. Hans van Wees is Reader in Ancient Greek History at University College London. He is the author of a book on Homeric society and editor of Archaic Greece: new approaches and new evidence (1998) and War and violence in Ancient Greece (2000).
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