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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Herodotus"”.
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Irony and women in Herodotus.
This is a study of eight stories in Herodotus in which women play a significant role. We argue that these stories are characterised by an irony or ambiguity which unsettles a construction of women as ‘other’. We question whether the concept of polar opposites (war and marriage, for example) is a …
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Herodotus and the birth of freedom.
… Near Eastern scholarship with a new reading of Herodotus's History. I argue, contrary to prevailing scholarly contentions, that Herodotus considered ancient Persia to be a free regime that possessed both external and internal freedom. Though some political theorists dismiss Herodotus as a …
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Emissaries in the narrative of Herodotus
… heralds, and other emissaries fill the pages of Herodotus’ Histories. Nevertheless, scholarship on narrative patterns has yet to consider their importance. This thesis uses methods from linguistics and narratology to demonstrate how Herodotus uses emissaries to support themes and reveal narrative …
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Studies in Aetiology and Historical Methodology in Herodotus
… regarding aetiology in the Histories of Herodotus in order to open up new avenues to approach a complex and varied topic. Since aetiology has mostly been treated as the study of cause and effect in the Histories, this work expands the purview of aetiology to include Herodotus’ …
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Herodotus : a peer-to-peer Web archival system
… we present the design and implementation of Herodotus, a peer-to-peer web archival system. Like the Wayback Machine, a website that currently offers a web archive, Herodotus periodically crawls the world wide web and stores copies of all downloaded web content. Unlike the Wayback Machine, …
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Where Xerxes’ Throne Once Stood: Gazing with Herodotus at the Persian Invasion in the Landscapes of Greece and Anatolia
Contains fulltext : 182830.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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‘The Oracular Tale’ and the Oracles of the Greeks: Storytelling, Conjecture, and Oracular Ambiguity in Herodotus’ Histories and its Historical and Cultural Context
… I analyze the stories about oracles from Herodotus’ Histories as well as Thucydides and the corpus of Greek inscriptions using a theory of storytelling called narratology. With this theory, I show that all stories about oracles are expressions of the same basic plot whether a narrator …
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Ionian Revolt, Reconsidered
In the scope of historical events recorded by Herodotus, no event has been more pivotal in capturing the relationship between the mainland and Ionian Greeks and their enemy, and at times supporter, Persian Empire than the Ionian Revolt. The Ionian Revolt, composed of the Naxian Expedition, Ionian …
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Studies in Historia
… with particular emphasis on the proem of Herodotus' Histories. Among the questions it tries to answer is whether any of the early uses of the ιστορ- vocabulary gives a key to Herodotus' use of ιστορίη. Chapter II takes a closer look at Herodotus' practice in the Histories by analysing his …
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A historical commentary on Cornelius Nepos life of Themistocles
… are predominantly Greek, namely Plutarch, Herodotus, and Diodorus. Justin's Latin epitome of Trogus also covers this period.
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Megaturbidites and the late Quaternary regional sedimentology of the eastern and central Mediterranean Sea
… assesses the sedimentology of the deep (>3000 m) Herodotus Basin situated between the Nile Cone and the deformed Mediterranean Ridge, focusing on sediment sources and influences on emplacement of the many turbidity current deposits (turbidites) noted in the stratigraphy. Radiocarbon dating and …
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Alexandria Underwater Museum For Sunken Monuments
… Mediterranean sea in the city of Alexandria. For Herodotus, the four major elements for civilization's development overtime are water, air, land, and fire. In this project, the effort is made to connect three of the four elements within an architectural context: "Underwater museum". The building …
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"A Commentary to Longus, ""Daphnis and Chloe,"" Book 3"
… mind the intellectual rivalry of Thucydides and Herodotus; the famous episode of Daphnis' bird hunting; the inset tale of Echo and Pan; and the brilliant reworking of Sappho's poetry which closes the book. Throughout, particular attention is paid to philological matters and matters of style.
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In search of Xerxes: images of the Persian king
… centuries BC, beginning with Acschylus and Herodotus and moving into di scussion of the diverse presentations of Timotheus, Ctesias and the orators and philosophers of fourth-century Athens. Later Greek sources - primarily Diodorus and Josephus - are then studied, before an analysis of the …
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Some of the conditions which tend toward dwarfism and stunted physical development
… are alluded to in the writings of Homer, Herodotus, Pliny and. Aristotle. The ancients, it would appear, had some knowledge of the existence of five different pigmy races in the old world, and it is interesting to note that their speculations as to the location of these tribes have been …
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Conceptions of the Poetic in Classical Greek Prose
… whose work survives in significant degree (Herodotus, Thucydides), or whose projects are inherently interested in literary categorization (Gorgias). The second chapter continues the investigation, looking now at relevant fourth-century authors who show an explicit interest in literary …
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Historiography and Extra-Biblical Sources Related to Daniel
… naturally write in Greek, not Akkadian. Herodotus and Xenophon prove critical sources for understanding Daniel but display a vast array of purposes and biases in their writing that require untangling. The sixth chapter discusses a few historical issues in Daniel to show the value of …
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Greek knowledge of India before the fourth century B.C
… writing. Hecataeus' work was, in turn, used by Herodotus, who also wrote a few chapters on India in his Histories, towards the end of the 5th century B.C. An examination of these three authors will show that the ancient Greeks, prior to Alexander's expedition, knew not only about the topography, …
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Les Chercheurs D’histoire: The Historical Investigator In The Contemporary French Novel
… considered historians in the oldest sense; like Herodotus, they write what they see and hear. In these novels, the concrete material is the physical space itself, observed as the writer-investigators travel the same routes as their historical subjects. Using studies of the everyday, the third …
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