Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories

by Emily Greenwood

Book Overview

Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521201020
• ISBN13: 9780521201025
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"