Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century
Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century
Joseph Skinner, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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USDHerodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century traces the impact of Herodotus' Histories during a momentous period in world history - an era of heightened social mobility, religious controversy, scientific discovery and colonial expansion. Contributions by an international team of specialists in Greek historiography, classical archaeology, receptions, and nineteenth-century intellectual history shed new light on how the Histories were read, remembered, and re-imagined in historical writing and in an exciting array of real-world contexts: from the classrooms of English public schools and universities to the music hall, museum, or gallery; from the news-stand to the nursery; and from the banks of the Nile to the mountains of the Hindu Kush. They reveal not only how engagement with Herodotus' work permeated nationalist discourses of the period, but also the extent to which these national and disciplinary contexts helped shape the way both Herodotus and the ancient past have been understood and interpreted.
- The first detailed treatment of the reception of Herodotus (the father of history) in any particular context in English
- Contains contributions from leading specialists in classical reception and on Herodotus' Histories
- Crosses disciplinary boundaries, with chapters from historians, archaeologists and classicists
Product details
April 2020Hardback
9781108472753
350 pages
235 × 160 × 23 mm
0.63kg
14 b/w illus. 1 map
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Thomas Harrison and Joseph Skinner
- 1. From ethnography to history: Herodotean and Thucydidean traditions in the development of Greek historiography Tim Rood
- 2. 'Romantic poet-sage of history': Herodotus and his Arion in the long nineteenth century Edith Hall
- 3. Herodotus as anti-classical toolbox Suzanne Marchand
- 4. George Grote and the 'open-hearted Herodotus' Mark Molesky
- 5. Imagining empire through Herodotus Joseph Skinner
- 6. Two Victorian Egypts of Herodotus David Gange
- 7. Of Europe Phiroze Vasunia
- 8. From Scythian ethnography to Aryan christianity: Herodotean revolutions on the eve of the Russian Revolution Caspar Meyer
- 9. Herodotus and the 1919–22 Greco-Turkish War NaoÃse Mac Sweeney
- 10. Herodotus's travels in Britain and beyond: prose composition and pseudo-ethnography Thomas Harrison.
