A01=Francois Hartog
academic
ancient greece
ancient history
ancient persia
ancient world
Author_Francois Hartog
B06=Janet Lloyd
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NHB
Category=NHC
Category=NHD
Category=NL-HB
COP=United States
cultural customs
cultural difference
cultural poetics
culture
Discount=15
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Format=BC
Format_Paperback
greek
greek culture
greek philosopher
greek philosophy
herodotus
historian
HMM=229
IMPN=University of California Press
ISBN13=9780520264236
Language_English
linguistics
NWS=5
othering
others
outsider
PA=Available
PD=20100630
persia
philosophy
poetics
POP=Berkerley
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=University of California Press
representation
rhetoric
rhetorical
scholarly
SMM=23
SN=The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
Subject=History
western world
WG=590
WMM=152
world history
Product details
- ISBN 9780520264236
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: Berkerley, US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Herodotus' great work is not only an account of the momentous historical conflict between the Greeks and the Persians but also the earliest sustained exploration in the West of the problem of cultural difference. Francois Hartog asks fundamental questions about how Herodotus represented this difference. How did he and his readers understand the customs and beliefs of those who were not Greek? How did the historian convince his readers that his account of other peoples was reliable? How is it possible to comprehend a way of life radically different from one's own? What are the linguistic, rhetorical, and philosophical means by which Herodotus fashions his text into a mirror of the marginal and unknown? In answering these questions, Hartog transforms our understanding of the 'father of history'. His Herodotus is less the chronicler of a victorious Greece than a brilliant writer in pursuit of otherness.
