Herodotean Narrative And Discourse
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| Author | : Mabel L. Lang |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780674389854 |
Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the "Father of History" pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches--so characteristic of folk literature--played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologies and geographies that he knew. Story form and speeches attributed to historical persons, she demonstrates, follow traditional formulas. She also studies in detail Herodotus' distinctive use of proverbs and rhetorical questions. Throughout, Lang draws on a variety of materials and offers particularly revealing comparisons of Homeric and Herodotean styles. This analysis of the evidence for oral composition in Herodotus' Histories opens a new perspective for students and scholars of Greek history.
| Author | : Mabel L. Lang |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Greece |
| ISBN | : 9780979971341 |
Jeffrey S. Rusten is Professor of Classics at Cornell University. He is the author of books on Thucydides, Theophrastus, Greek comedy, and Sophocles, among others, and the author of many articles and important Greek software. --
| Author | : Edith Foster |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 2012-05-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199593264 |
Thucydides and Herodotus is an edited collection which looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE. It examines the relevant relationship between them which is considered, especially nowadays, by historians and philologists to be more significant than previously realized.
| Author | : Mathieu de Bakker |
| Publisher | : Mnemosyne, Supplements |
| Total Pages | : 720 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789004498808 |
"Speech in Ancient Greek Literature is the fifth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. There is hardly any Greek narrative text without speech, which need not surprise in the literature of a culture which loved theatre and also invented the art of rhetoric. This book offers a full discussion of the types of speech, the modes of speech and their effective alternation, and the functions of speech from Homer to Heliodorus, including the Gospels. For the first time speech-introductions and 'speech in speech' are discussed across all genres. All chapters also pay attention to moments when characters do not speak"--
| Author | : , Emily Baragwanath |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2012-09-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199693978 |
This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories.
| Author | : A. D. Morrison |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2020-01-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108492320 |
Argues that Herodotus is key to understanding genre and the relationship between past and present in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica.
| Author | : Rosaria Vignolo Munson |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780472112036 |
A sharp analysis of how Herodotus' narrative participates in the rhetoric of shaping public attitudes about the present
| Author | : Emily Baragwanath |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2008-05-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 019160786X |
In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC, Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards. Much as the contemporary sophists strove to discover truth about the invisible, Herodotus was acutely concerned to uncover hidden human motivations, whose depiction was vital to his project of recounting and explaining the past. Emily Baragwanath explores the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represented this most elusive variety of historical knowledge. Thus he was able to tell a lucid story of the past while nonetheless exposing the methodological and epistemological challenges it presented. Baragwanath illustrates and analyses a range of these techniques over the course of a wide selection of Herodotus' most intriguing narratives - from those on Athenian democracy and tyranny to Leonidas and Thermopylae - and thus supplies a method for reading the Histories more generally.
| Author | : Eva Tyrell |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2020-04-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 900442797X |
In Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus’ Histories and Genesis–Kings, Eva Tyrell comparatively analyzes narrative means in two monumental ancient texts about the past. Combining a narratological approach with insights of modern historical theory and biblical scholarship, she investigates patterns of narrative persuasion as a trans-cultural phenomenon and their connection with ancient concepts of reality and truth. The study contrasts differences in fundamental narrative structures of both narratives, such as mediacy and discursive versus diegetic text portions. It explores the role of material remains mentioned in the accounts to evoke or even create the reality of a past.
| Author | : Vasiliki Zali |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2014-10-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004283587 |
In The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric, Vasiliki Zali offers a fresh assessment of Herodotus’ rhetorical awareness. Redressing the usual view that considers Thucydides as a significant jump from earlier authors in the rhetorical tradition, Zali attempts to find a place for Herodotus. The volume explores the direct and indirect speeches in Herodotus’ fifth to ninth books, focusing in particular on the ways in which they highlight two major narrative themes: the fragility of Greek unity and the problematic Greco-Persian polarity. Through discussion of case studies and Herodotus’ literary background, Zali brings Herodotus’ sophisticated rhetorical system to life, examines the ways in which this system affects Herodotus’ authority, and demonstrates that Herodotus occupies a crucial place in the development of rhetoric.
