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Sophocles’ Oedipus and Herodotus’ Periander

From the book Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian

  • P. J. Finglass
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110583557-004
© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston
From the book
Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian
Herodotus - narrator, scientist, historian

Chapters in this book (21)

Frontmatter
Preface
Contents
I. Narrator
Ὁμηρικώτατος? Battle Narratives in Herodotus
Herodotus the story-teller
Justifying Violence in Herodotus’ Histories 3.38: Nomos, King of All, and Pindaric Poetics
Sophocles’ Oedipus and Herodotus’ Periander
Time, Thy Pyramids: The Novella of Mycerinus (Herodotus 2.129–134)
Herodotus on queens and courtesans of Egypt
II. Scientist
Herodotus mapping out his genre: the interaction of myth and geography in the Libyan logos
Herodotus the geographer
Herodotus as a literary critic
Herodotus on Health and Disease
III. Historian
Causes in competition: Herodotus and Hippocratics
ἱστορέειν and θωμάζειν: scientific terms and signs of unity in Herodotus’ Histories
Χρυσός, χρόνος, and κλέος: objects of gold, cognition, ambiguity, and authority in Herodotus’ Lydian logos
Truth and authority in Herodotus’ narrative: false stories and true stories
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index of names and subjects
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