Telling Wonders: Ethnographic And Political Discourse In The Work Of Herodotus

Authors

Rosaria Vignolo Munson, Swarthmore CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2001

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Telling Wonders: Ethnographic And Political Discourse In The Work Of Herodotus

Abstract

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.

Published By

University of Michigan Press

Comments

The introduction of this work is freely available courtesy of the University of Michigan Press. The book is also available online for subscribers.

Recommended Citation

Rosaria Vignolo Munson. (2001). Telling Wonders: Ethnographic And Political Discourse In The Work Of Herodotus.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-classics/39