Audiences of Herodotus

Audiences of Herodotus

Ian Oliver

135,06 €
IVA incluido
Consulta disponibilidad
Editorial:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2025
Materia
Historia antigua: hasta c. 500 e. c.
ISBN:
9781666936209

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

This book resituates the Histories’ battle narratives within the context of Herodotus’s participation in the mid-fifth-century culture of wisdom performance, arguing that the Salamis and Plataea narratives reflect the biases and ideologies of an Athenian audience, while Thermopylae reflects an audience gathered at the Pythian Festival.

Artículos relacionados

  • Iron Age Societies in the Severn-Cotswolds
    Tom Moore
    The central theme of this study is an examination of the processes of change in Iron Age social organisation and identity on a regional scale using the Severn-Cotswolds area in England as a case study. It aims to provide a coherent narrative of the period in the region based on the wealth of current data now available, providing a basic storyboard against which future studies c...
    Disponible

    144,57 €

  • Somewhere Beyond The Sea Les îles bretonnes (France)
    The Seminar on the Archaeology of Western France, which focused on the islands of Brittany, was held on 1 April 2014 at the University of Rennes 1. The desire to organize this seminar arose spontaneously from the dynamism which currently animates archaeological research on island spaces of the western seaboard of France. Indeed, the seminar took place during a pivotal period of...
    Disponible

    86,11 €

  • El Vaso de Largo Bordo Horizontal
    L. Nonat / LNonat / M. P. Prieto Martínez / MPPrieto Martínez / P. Vázquez Liz / PVázquez Liz
    In this paper the authors study a specific type of pottery from the northwest Iberian Peninsula, known as the Wide Horizontal Rim (WHR) vessel. One of its distinctive aspects is precisely the fact that it is exclusively found in this region, which now comprises the Spanish region of Galicia and northern Portugal, as far south as the River Duero. This type of pottery, of which t...
    Disponible

    115,71 €

  • A Connecting Sea
    Stašo Forenbaher
    This book includes papers stemming from a session at the EAA conference held in Zadar in September 2007.                          ...
    Disponible

    79,97 €

  • The Roman Pottery Production Site at Wickham Barn, Chiltington, East Sussex
    Chris Butler / Malcolm Lyne
    The excavations undertaken at Chiltington in East Sussex revealed two Roman pottery kilns, as well as remains from prehistory and from medieval period.The kilns are well documented, and all the finds were examined and catalogued. Three phases were identified. The pottery produced on the site indicate a strong New Forest influence. ...
    Disponible

    55,62 €

  • Kurgans, Ritual Sites, and Settlements
    Edited by: Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Eileen M. Murphy, Ludmila Koryakova and Leonid T. YablonskyThis richly illustrated volume adds immensely to the small but growing corpus of Eurasian Archaeology published in the English language. Comprised of thirty articles, the authors have focused on the Bronze Age, continuing to include the first millennium BC Early Iron Age, with a termin...
    Disponible

    158,26 €

Otros libros del autor

  • The Mouse Who Roared at Lions
    Ian Oliver
    In the heart of Redwood Forest, animals once lived in harmony-until a group of lions began to bully everyone. They stole food, scared birds, and demanded obedience.No one dared to stand up to them... until Tiny, the smallest mouse in the forest, found his courage. With a roar louder than anyone expected, Tiny showed that bravery doesn’t depend on size.His act of courage inspire...
    Disponible

    10,55 €

  • Fifty Plus Fitness
    Ian Oliver
    Get fit and stay young! Did you know that ’muscle responds to vigorous training with marked and rapid improvement into the ninth decade of life’. Or ’muscle cross-sectional area and strength of 70 year-olds who had resistance trained since the age of 50 was the same as a group of 28 year-old students.’ Now Ian Oliver, renowned 63 yr old boxing trainer and author of the bestsell...
    Disponible

    31,80 €

  • Police, Government and Accountability
    Ian Oliver
    ...
    Disponible

    48,35 €