Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion by Rosalind Thomas

Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion

Rosalind Thomas

332 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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This book examines the Histories of Herodotus within the context of the intellectual climate of the mid to late fifth century BC. Herodotus is read widely for his accounts of archaic Greek history but his descriptions of Egypt, Scythia and Libya a...

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