Name: Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays (Princeton Legacy Library) (en Inglés)
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Author: James Allan Stewart Evans
ISBN: 9780691605852

portada Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays (Princeton Legacy Library) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Princeton University Press

Autor

James Allan Stewart Evans

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

180

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780691605852

Categorías

Antigua grecia
Historia antigua
Historia de europa

Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays (Princeton Legacy Library) (en Inglés)

James Allan Stewart Evans (Autor) · Princeton University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Why does a power expand and become an empire? Writing in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, Herodotus gave Athens full credit for saving Greece from Persia, but also identified the city's expansion as a new manifestation of imperialist aggression. In this skillful analysis of Herodotus' intellectual world, J.A.S. Evans combines historical, anthropological, and literary techniques to show how the war affected not only the great thinker's view of Persian aggression and of the people involved in it but also the shape of the Histories themselves. The first essay discusses Herodotus' investigation of imperialism, and the second finds the beginnings of biography in his descriptions of individuals, particularly in his well-crafted portrait of Cyrus. The third essay describes the "Father of History" as a collector and evaluator of local oral stories, sources for the written work that was destined by its scope and unifying plan to introduce a new genre. Evans draws analogies between Herodotus' methods and those of oral historians in other cultures, particularly in precolonial Africa. He also explores comparisons between Herodotus in Egypt and sixteenth-and seventeenth-century European ethnologists in the Americas.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.