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Pages: 337
Authors: Sean Sheehan
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-05 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incom
Reading Herodotus
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Elizabeth Irwin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focu
Reading Herodotus
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Authors: Debra Hamel
Categories: History
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How to destroy a mighty empire: the story of Croesus of Lydia -- Cannibals and conquests: the story of Cyrus the Great -- Horny goats and medicinal urine: the E
Travels with Herodotus
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Authors: Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-11 - Publisher: Vintage

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From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiop
Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus
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This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements tha