Herodotus in Nubia
By: by László Török
Series: Mnemosyne. Supplements, History and archaeology of classical Antiquity -- VOLUME 368; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava -- v. 368.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9789004269132; 9789004273887
Subjects: Knowledge; Sources; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-152) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Herodotus' Nubia in modern scholarship; title: Images of Nubia in Herodotean scholarship; title: Herodotus halfway between Egyptology and Nubian studies; title: Excursus 1: the kingdom of Kush from the eighth to the fifth century BC: a brief overview; title: The Aithiopian passages in English translation; title: The problem of the "Aithiopian logos"; title: The context of the Aithiopian passages: introductory remarks; title: Was there an unfinished Aithiopian logos?; title: "Fiction" and "reality"; title: On sources; title: Excursus 2: Herodotus' priestly informants and the explanation of the Nile flood; title: Sesostris in Nubia; title: Excursus 3: a note on ancient Nubian archives; title: Sabacos in Egypt; title: Psamtek II in Nubia; title: Aithiopians in the Siwa Oasis; title: Herodotus' two Aithiopias 1: Aithiopia south of Egypt, with notes on oracles; title: Herodotus' two Aithiopias 2: the land of the long-lived Aithiopians on the fringes of the inhabited world; title: Excursus 4: Herodotus and Agatharchides; title: The land of the long-lived Aithiopians continued; title: The gifts presented to the king of Persia by the Aithiopians living south of Egypt; title: Aithiopian passages in the Libyan logos: the autochthonous origin of the Aithiopians, the Aithiopian troglodytes; title: A meditation on the fringes; title: Aithiopian "half-men" in the army of Xerxes I; title: Herodotus in Nubia; title: Herodotus' sources on Kushite kingship; title: "Reflections in a distant mirror".