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Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incom
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Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focu
Reading Herodotus
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Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus
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This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements tha
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From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiop