Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture Literary Studies in the Reception of the Histories 1st Edition by Jessica 0191510165 9780191510168

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• ISBN 10:  0191510165
• ISBN 13:  9780191510168
• Author: Jessica Priestley

In a series of literary studies, Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus’ Histories through the extant written record of the early and middle Hellenistic period. Responses to the Histories were rich and varied, and the range of Hellenistic writers responding in different ways to Herodotus’ work is in part a reflection of the Histories’own broad scope. The Histories remained relevant in this later age and continued to speak meaningfully to a broad range of readers long after Herodotus’ death. Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture explores a variety of discourses where Herodotus occupies an important place in the intellectual background, and, in particular, it draws attention to writers not usually categorized as historians in order to broaden our perspectives on Herodotus’ cultural importance.

Table of contents:

1: Biographical Traditions

HALICARNASSUS AND SAMOS

THURII

PELLA AND PTOLEMAIC ALEXANDRIA

THEBES AND CORINTH

ATHENS

2: The Great and the Marvellous

WONDER-NARRATIVES IN HERODOTUS

Herodotus´ rhetoric of wonder

Unmarked wonders

THUCYDIDES AND WONDER: THE FRAMEWORK CHALLENGED

ARISTOTLE AND WONDER: THE FRAMEWORK REJECTED

CATALOGUING THE MARVELLOUS: HERODOTUS AND PARADOXOGRAPHY

HERODOTUS AND THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD

A Hellenistic construct

The canonical wonders: Herodotean influence?

Descriptions of the Seven Wonders: Herodotus acknowledged

COMPETING AESTHETICS: GREAT AND SMALL, HUMAN AND DIVINE

SCHOLARLY WONDER AND HERODOTUS’ INQUIRIES

3: Herodotus and Hellenistic Geographies

GEOGRAPHICAL UNCERTAINTIES

Hyperboreans and Hypernotians

The River Nile

Herodotus on the inundation and source of the Nile

The reception of Herodotus’ views on the Nile

Theories of a west African source

Diodorus Siculus’ representation of Herodotus on the Nile

GEOGRAPHIES OF THE PAST

The Egyptian–Colchis theory

The geography of Apollonius’ Argonautica

A geographical allusion to Herodotus

4: The Persian Wars: New Versions and New Contexts

GALATIANS, LATTER DAY PERSIANS

TIMAEUS: AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE PERSIAN WARS

EAST VERSUS WEST

The beginning of the Histories (1.1–5)

Apollonius’ Argonautica

Lycophron’s Alexandra

5: The Prose Homer of History

HERODOTUS AND POETRY

HERODOTUS THE LIAR

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