Herodotus: a very short introduction 9780199575992, 0199575991

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English Pages xiv, 123 pages ; 18 cm Year 2011

Herodotus: a very short introduction
9780199575992, 0199575991

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Herodotus.;Roberts
Jennifer Tolbert

Table of contents :
Introduction
1. The world of Herodotus
2. Origins and the historian
3. Greeks and Persians at war
4. Herodotus as Ethnographer
5. Women in history, women in the histories
6. Herodotus and the divine
7. Herodotus as storyteller
8. Herodotus as historian

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