An edition of Telling wonders (2001)
Telling wonders
ethnographic and political discourse in the work of Herodotus
By Rosaria Vignolo Munson
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Publish Date
2001
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Language
eng
Pages
325
Description:
"Herodotus, the worldwide ethnographer and historian of the Persian Wars, provides a striking demonstration of how the account of past events of national history and the description of foreign peoples participate in the rhetoric of shaping attitudes about the present. Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus studies the narrative of the Histories in order to uncover the political message communicated to a Greek audience of the fifth century B.C."--BOOK JACKET.