Telling wonders
Subtitle: ethnographic and political discourse in the work of Herodotus
By: Rosaria Vignolo Munson.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Herodotus.; Herodotus -- Political and social views.; Herodotus -- Knowledge -- Ethnology.; History, Ancient -- Historiography.; Ethnology -- Greece -- History.
Description: "Herodotus, the worldwide ethnographer and historian of the Persian Wars, provides a striking demonstration of how the account of past events of national history and the description of foreign peoples participate in the rhetoric of shaping attitudes about the present. Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus studies the narrative of the Histories in order to uncover the political message communicated to a Greek audience of the fifth century B.C."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-291) and indexes.