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Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories - Irwin, Elizabeth (Editor), and Greenwood, Emily (Editor)
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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 focus on a single book of Herodotus' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and ...

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Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories 2011, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521201025

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