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Tyrants, democrats and the first silver 'owl' coins of Athens. [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeol Anthropol Sci
Davis G   +3 more
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The Herodotus Paradox [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
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Baye, Michael R.   +2 more
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Herodotus

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter analyses the moralising techniques and moral lessons of Herodotus. Using the moralising techniques found and analysed in Polybius and Diodorus as its point of departure, it discovers that Herodotus uses a root version of many of the techniques found in more developed form in the two Hellenistic historiographers, but that he also moralises ...
Lisa Irene Hau
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Interpreting Herodotus

open access: yes, 2018
Charles W. Fornara’s Herodotus. An Interpretative Essay (1971) was a landmark publication in the study of Herodotus. It is well known in particular for its main thesis that the Histories should be read against the background of the Atheno-Peloponnesian ...
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Thucydides’ Awareness of Herodotus, or Herodotus’ Awareness of Thucydides?

open access: yes, 2010
This volume, like the conference from which it derives, is devoted to the reception of Thucydides. The first phase of that reception is in many ways the hardest for us to evaluate, that is, Thucydides’reception by his own contemporaries, and by the ...
Hornblower, Simon
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Herodotus

The Classical World, 1991
Abstract The first of the great historians, Herodotus, came from Halicarnassus in Caria; the traditional date of his birth is 484 BC. He clearly spent much time in Athens, by now the cultural and political centre of Aegean Greece, and in 444 BC he took part in the Athenian-led foundation of Thurii in South Italy.
Mabel Lang, John Gould
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‘…there was no Herodotus before Herodotus’

2018
This chapter explores two major Herodotean contexts. One is the Greek literary tradition of which he was a part, ranging from Homer, through the periegetic texts, through ethnographic writings, and other early historians, such as Hecataeus. After considering these literary and intellectual milieus within which Herodotus operated, this chapter moves on ...
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