Speech, Narrative, and Authority in Herodotus' Histories - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mathieu P. de BakkerSeries:The Language of Classical Literature #41Publish date:12/11/2025Pages:566
Language:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004749535ISBN-10:9004749535UPC:9789004749535Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, MedievalWeight:2.1716Product ID:SCJRJP0SZ7
Speech, Narrative, and Authority in Herodotus' Histories
This book contends that Herodotus asserts his authority as a historiographer by integrating a wide array of speeches throughout the Histories. These include not only the words he attributes to his characters but also the testimony he assigns to his informants. Both types of speeches serve to engage the reader, thereby enhancing the credibility of the text, and, by extension, its author. In...
Series: The Language of Classical Literature #41
Language:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004749535ISBN-10:9004749535UPC:9789004749535Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, MedievalWeight:2.1716Product ID:SCJRJP0SZ7
Mathieu de Bakker, Ph.D. (2007), University of Amsterdam, is university lecturer at the ancient studies department of the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches courses on ancient Greek. He has published on the Greek historians and orators, co-edited several volumes on ancient Greek literature, and is co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (2019).
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