Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion / Jan Zacharias van Rookhuijzen.
"This book argues that Herodotus' topography of the Persian Wars, long taken at face value, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes' invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative app...
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| Other title: | Where Xerxes throne once stood Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion : place and memory in Greece and Anatolia. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2019]
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| Summary: | "This book argues that Herodotus' topography of the Persian Wars, long taken at face value, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes' invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them"-- |
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| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Radboud University, 2018, titled Where Xerxes throne once stood: gazing with Herodotus at the Persian invasion in the landscapes of Greece and Anatolia. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 373 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110610208 3110610205 |