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Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Apollonius and Herodotus -- History and Fiction -- Intertexts and Readers -- The Shape of the Argument: History and Politics -- Chapter 1 Receiving Herodotus -- Herodot...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2020
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6028961 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Apollonius and Herodotus -- History and Fiction -- Intertexts and Readers -- The Shape of the Argument: History and Politics -- Chapter 1 Receiving Herodotus -- Herodotus and Historiography: The Critical Perspective -- The Herodotean Thought-World -- Panhellenic and Local Perspectives -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Creating Authorities -- The Historiographical Mode -- Herodotus as Historiographical Modello-Codice -- What Needs to Be In: Historical Obligation and Apollonius -- Truth and the Limits of Knowledge -- The Past Is a Foreign Country . . . -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Explaining the Past -- Introduction -- Explaining Origins and Causes -- Explaining Motivations -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Telling Stories -- Introduction -- Herodotean Beginnings -- Herodotean Places -- Lemnos -- Lake Tritonis -- Thera -- Thessaly -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Greeks and Non-Greeks -- Introduction -- Greek Worlds -- Home and Abroad -- Egyptians and Otherness -- Persians and Colchians -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Kings and Leaders -- Introduction -- Hellenistic Kings and Kingship Ideology -- Exemplary Kings? -- The Problematic of Monarchy -- Kings in Herodotus and Apollonius -- Violence and Power -- Straight Justice -- Conclusion -- Conclusions and Consequences -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Passages. Argues that Herodotus is key to understanding genre and the relationship between past and present in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108582346 |
