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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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VerfasserIn: Morrison, A. D. (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Online-Ressource Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020
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E-Book-Pakete:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)
ISBN:9781108582346