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- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Why did it all happen?
- (a) "Mother, what did they fight each other for?"
- (b) The words
- (c) Narrative: Show, not tell
- (d) Explanation: A game for two
- (e) Historical consciousness
- (f) Reconstructing mentalities
- 2. To blame and to explain: Narrative complications
- (a) The proem
- (b) The exchange of abductions (1.1-5)
- (c) Payback and its complications
- (d) Whose fault is it anyway?
- (e) Them and us
- 3. How can you possibly know?
- (a) Putting in the working
- (b) Scientific and historical explanation
- (c) Stories in cahoots
- 4. Adventures in prose
- (a) Something different?
- (b) Hecataeus
- (c) Other peoples and their past
- (d) Rhetorical finger-pointing
- (e) Sameness and difference
- 5. Hippocratic affinities
- (a) Medical science
- (b) Harmonious balancing
- (c) Corroboration and revision
- 6. Explanations in combination
- (a) Hippocratics
- (b) Herodotus
- 7. Early moves
- (a) Croesus and Candaules
- (b) Croesus: Pride, aggression, downfall
- 8. Empire
- (a) Croesus again
- (b) From Cyrus to Xerxes
- (c) Blame?
- 9. Herodotus’ Persian stories
- (a) The world of the court
- (b) Biography?
- (c) Be careful what you say . . .
- (d) Overconfidence?
- (e) But are we so different?
- 10. The human and the divine
- (a) Divine perspectives
- (b) Enigmatic divinity
- (c) Historical explanation?
- 11. Explaining victory
- 12. Freedom
- (a) Inspiration
- (b) The unruly free
- (c) Freedom from and freedom to
- 13. Democracy
- (a) Democracy and freedom?
- (b) Characterizing the d¿mos
- (c) Democracy in and out of focus
- 14. Individuals and collectives
- (a) Self-expression?
- (b) Narrative shape
- (c) Individuals and communities
- (d) An Athenian virtue?
- (e) National characteristics?
- 15. Then and now: Herodotus’ own day
- (a) Shadows of the future
- (b) Thinking backwards and forwards
- (c) Back to the future
- 16. Why indeed?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Passages in Herodotus
- Passages in Other Authors
- General Index
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Why did it all happen?
- (a) "Mother, what did they fight each other for?"
- (b) The words
- (c) Narrative: Show, not tell
- (d) Explanation: A game for two
- (e) Historical consciousness
- (f) Reconstructing mentalities
- 2. To blame and to explain: Narrative complications
- (a) The proem
- (b) The exchange of abductions (1.1-5)
- (c) Payback and its complications
- (d) Whose fault is it anyway?
- (e) Them and us
- 3. How can you possibly know?
- (a) Putting in the working
- (b) Scientific and historical explanation
- (c) Stories in cahoots
- 4. Adventures in prose
- (a) Something different?
- (b) Hecataeus
- (c) Other peoples and their past
- (d) Rhetorical finger-pointing
- (e) Sameness and difference
- 5. Hippocratic affinities
- (a) Medical science
- (b) Harmonious balancing
- (c) Corroboration and revision
- 6. Explanations in combination
- (a) Hippocratics
- (b) Herodotus
- 7. Early moves
- (a) Croesus and Candaules
- (b) Croesus: Pride, aggression, downfall
- 8. Empire
- (a) Croesus again
- (b) From Cyrus to Xerxes
- (c) Blame?
- 9. Herodotus’ Persian stories
- (a) The world of the court
- (b) Biography?
- (c) Be careful what you say . . .
- (d) Overconfidence?
- (e) But are we so different?
- 10. The human and the divine
- (a) Divine perspectives
- (b) Enigmatic divinity
- (c) Historical explanation?
- 11. Explaining victory
- 12. Freedom
- (a) Inspiration
- (b) The unruly free
- (c) Freedom from and freedom to
- 13. Democracy
- (a) Democracy and freedom?
- (b) Characterizing the d¿mos
- (c) Democracy in and out of focus
- 14. Individuals and collectives
- (a) Self-expression?
- (b) Narrative shape
- (c) Individuals and communities
- (d) An Athenian virtue?
- (e) National characteristics?
- 15. Then and now: Herodotus’ own day
- (a) Shadows of the future
- (b) Thinking backwards and forwards
- (c) Back to the future
- 16. Why indeed?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Passages in Herodotus
- Passages in Other Authors
- General Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Le |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781477324257 |
| ISBN-10: | 1477324259 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Christopher Pelling |
| Hersteller: | UNIV OF TEXAS PR |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
| Maße: | 228 x 162 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Christopher Pelling |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.03.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,582 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Reihe: | Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Le |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781477324257 |
| ISBN-10: | 1477324259 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Christopher Pelling |
| Hersteller: | UNIV OF TEXAS PR |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de |
| Maße: | 228 x 162 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Christopher Pelling |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.03.2021 |
| Gewicht: | 0,582 kg |
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