Motivation and narrative in Herodotus
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2008.
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| Colección: | Oxford classical monographs
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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).
