The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History (The New Historicism : Studies in Cultural Poetics, 5)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 15, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780520054875
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History, Ancient; Ancient Greece - History; Historiography; History - General History; To 500; Sociology; Ancient Greece; Poetics; Ancient - General; History / Ancient / General; Herodotus; History; To 1500
First sentence: In the Histories, the Scythians are "others" with a special position: they are, after the Egyptians, those to whom Herodotus devoted the most space, and yet, in contrast to Egypt, their country could offer scarcely any marvels or curiosities worth reporting.