Title: Telling wonders
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.
Subjects: Ancient History, Ethnology, Historiography, History, Knowledge, Political and social views, Herodotus, Greek literature, hellenistic, history and criticism, Ethnology, greece, Political science, greece, Philosophy
Places: Greece
People: Herodotus