Motivation and narrative in Herodotus

Motivation and narrative in Herodotus
Emily Baragwanath, Emily Barag...
Motivation and narrative in Herodotus by Emily Baragwanath, Emily Baragwanath
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English
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374
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Motivation and narrative in Herodotus
2008, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

The Histories, Plutarch, and reader response
The Homeric background
Constructions of motives and the historian's persona
Problematized motivation in the Samian and Persian logoi (Book III)
For better, for worse : motivation in the Athenian logoi (Books I, V, and VI)
For freedom's sake : motivation in the Ionian revolt (Books V-VI)
To medize or not to medize : compulsion and negative motives (Books VII-IX)
Xerxes : motivation and explanation (Books VII-IX)
Themistocles : constructions of motivation (Books VII-IX).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-341) and indexes.

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Oxford, New York
Series
Oxford classical monographs

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Dewey Decimal Class
938.007202
Library of Congress
PA4004 .B37 2008, PA4004.B37 2008

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xi, 374 p. ;
Number of pages
374

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL16905612M
ISBN 10
019923129X
ISBN 13
9780199231294
LCCN
2007044518
OCLC/WorldCat
180574911
LibraryThing
8738624
Goodreads
4534896

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OL11969174W

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