Motivation and narrative in Herodotus
By: Emily Baragwanath.
Series: Oxford classical monographs
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780199231294
Subjects: Herodotus -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-341) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The Histories, Plutarch, and reader response; title: The Homeric background; title: Constructions of motives and the historian's persona; title: Problematized motivation in the Samian and Persian logoi (Book III); title: For better, for worse : motivation in the Athenian logoi (Books I, V, and VI); title: For freedom's sake : motivation in the Ionian revolt (Books V-VI); title: To medize or not to medize : compulsion and negative motives (Books VII-IX); title: Xerxes : motivation and explanation (Books VII-IX); title: Themistocles : constructions of motivation (Books VII-IX).