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Named Person: | Heródoto; Herodotus; Herodotus; Heródoto |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Emily Baragwanath; Mathieu de Bakker |
ISBN: | 9780199693979 0199693978 |
OCLC Number: | 913041017 |
Notes: | Recoge, principalmente, los trabajos presentados en una conferencia celebrada en el Christ Church (Oxford) en septiembre de 2007. |
Description: | xi, 370 p. ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : myth, truth, and narrative in Herodotus' Histories / Emily Baragwanath and Mathieu de Bakker. -- Myth and legend in Herodotus' first book / Carolyn Dewald. -- Herodotus and the 'Myth' of the Trojan War / Suzanne Saïd. -- Herodotus' Proteus : myth, history, enquiry and storytelling / Mathieu de Bakker. -- The Helen logos and Herodotus' fingerprint / Irene de Jong. -- 'Strangers are from Zeus' : Homeric xenia at the courts of Proteus and Croesus / Elizabeth Vandiver. -- Herodotus on Melampus / Vivienne J. Gray. -- Herodotus and the Heroic Age : the case of Minos / Rosaria Vignolo Munson. -- Myth and truth in Herodotus' Cyrus logos / Charles C. Chiasson. -- Herodotus and eastern myths and logoi : Deioces the Mede and Pythius the Lydian / Rosalind Thomas. -- The mythical origins of the Medes and the Persians / Pietro Vannicelli. -- Mythology and the expedition of Xerxes / Angus M. Bowie. -- Returning to Troy : Herodotus and the mythic discourse of his own time / Emily Baragwanath. |
Responsibility: | edited by Emily Baragwanath and Mathieu de Bakker. |
Abstract:
Este volumen reúne 13 innovadores artículos en los que se examinan, restablecen y rehabilitan los orígenes, formas y funciones de los elementos mitológicos presentes en las Historias de Heródoto.
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