Colonization and founding narratives in Herodotus. The founding of cities and archaic colonization are historical phenomena widely dwelt upon in Herodotus’s Inquiries. Comparison with the data to be found in poetic tradition and in the first works in prose shows that the “founding narrative” (ktisis) had not yet become a distinct poetic or narrative genre at the archaic period. Herodotus was quite certainly one of the first to give it its shape. This appropriation can be explained on two levels: on the one hand, the founding of cities represents one stage of the sequential “journey” undertaken by the investigator among the “cities of men” (I. 5), and constitutes the horizon for all his research; on the other hand, apoikia, in the sense of e...
In his Histories, the ancient Greek Historian Herodotus posits that to mock other cultures is sure p...
Thanks to a recent monographic study by Chiara Matarese we are now able to understand more clearly b...
Scores of messengers, heralds, and other emissaries fill the pages of Herodotus’ Histories. Neverth...
Colonization and founding narratives in Herodotus. The founding of cities and archaic colonization a...
This paper consists of four parts. The first one provides a short commentary on the oral tradition o...
In the research on Herodotus’ “Nachleben” Greek and Latin rhetorical texts have been neglected ; the...
Though the term geographia is not used until Eratosthenes (third century B.C.E.), the idea is presen...
In his book, The Histories, Herodotus of Halicarnassus expertly displayed his inquiries into the cul...
This chapter examines the phenomenon of ‘aetiology’ in Greek formal historiography, particularly Her...
About the genesis of historical writing. The present paper is not meant to offer novel or revolution...
La thèse est organisée en trois chapitres, dans lesquels on analyse, respectivement, la relation ent...
La thèse est organisée en trois chapitres, dans lesquels on analyse, respectivement, la relation ent...
Scholars have long recognized that Herodotus wrote his Histories when literature was often researche...
In his Histories, the ancient Greek Historian Herodotus posits that to mock other cultures is sure p...
Scores of messengers, heralds, and other emissaries fill the pages of Herodotus’ Histories. Neverth...
In his Histories, the ancient Greek Historian Herodotus posits that to mock other cultures is sure p...
Thanks to a recent monographic study by Chiara Matarese we are now able to understand more clearly b...
Scores of messengers, heralds, and other emissaries fill the pages of Herodotus’ Histories. Neverth...
Colonization and founding narratives in Herodotus. The founding of cities and archaic colonization a...
This paper consists of four parts. The first one provides a short commentary on the oral tradition o...
In the research on Herodotus’ “Nachleben” Greek and Latin rhetorical texts have been neglected ; the...
Though the term geographia is not used until Eratosthenes (third century B.C.E.), the idea is presen...
In his book, The Histories, Herodotus of Halicarnassus expertly displayed his inquiries into the cul...
This chapter examines the phenomenon of ‘aetiology’ in Greek formal historiography, particularly Her...
About the genesis of historical writing. The present paper is not meant to offer novel or revolution...
La thèse est organisée en trois chapitres, dans lesquels on analyse, respectivement, la relation ent...
La thèse est organisée en trois chapitres, dans lesquels on analyse, respectivement, la relation ent...
Scholars have long recognized that Herodotus wrote his Histories when literature was often researche...
In his Histories, the ancient Greek Historian Herodotus posits that to mock other cultures is sure p...
Scores of messengers, heralds, and other emissaries fill the pages of Herodotus’ Histories. Neverth...
In his Histories, the ancient Greek Historian Herodotus posits that to mock other cultures is sure p...
Thanks to a recent monographic study by Chiara Matarese we are now able to understand more clearly b...
Scores of messengers, heralds, and other emissaries fill the pages of Herodotus’ Histories. Neverth...