Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature
Criticism, Imitation, Reception
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 September 2022
- ISBN 9780197583517
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 163x237x29 mm
- Weight 708 g
- Language English 299
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Short description:
This book traces the intellectual influence of Herodotus among ancient Greek writers living under the Roman Empire.
MoreLong description:
Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, the book analyzes the entanglements of criticism and imitation in select works by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Dio of Prusa, Lucian, and Pausanias. It offers a new angle on Herodotus's intellectual afterlife, focused on evocations both explicit and implicit in literary criticism, the moral essay, public oration, satire, and periegetic literature.
This monograph moves beyond the study of reputation only--what ancient authors explicitly had to say about Herodotus--to examine the interrelation between Herodotus's reputation and his often implicit reworking across genre and mode. It demonstrates how Herodotus was strategically construed as fabulist, classicist, moralizer, and evasive intellectual, and how Herodotean presences played to the wider purposes of Imperial writers. Ultimately, the book examines how attention to the presence of Herodotus in various texts unveils new layers of meaning in those works, while also showing how ancient receptions offer insight into the Histories.
Kirkland expands concepts of classical reception.
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: After Herodotus
Chapter 1. The Ethics of Authorship: Herodotus in the Rhetorical Works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Chapter 2. Dionysius's Global Herodotus
Chapter 3. Parallel Authors: Plutarch's "Life" of Herodotus
Chapter 4. Hellenism in the Distance: Herodotean Fringes in Dio's Borystheniticus
Chapter 5. Removable Eyes: Lucian and the Truths of Herodotus
Chapter 6. Anacharsis at Border Control
Chapter 7. Acts of God: Pausanias Divines Herodotus
Chapter 8. Pausanias in Wonderland
Epilogue: Herodotus without End
