Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 373 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110612530
Uniform Title:
Where Xerxes' throne once stood$dgazing with Herodotus at the Persian invasion in the landscapes of Greece and Anatolia
Content:
In his Histories, Herodotus of Halicarnassus gave an account of Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480 BCE). Among the information in this work features a rich topography of the places visited by the army, as well as of the battlefields. Apparently there existed a certain demand among the Greeks to behold the exact places where they believed that the Greeks had fallen, gods had appeared, or Xerxes had watched over his men.This book argues that Herodotus’ topography, long taken at face value as if it provided unambiguous access to the historical sites of the war, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes’ invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them. It also prompts new suggestions about the real-world locations of various places mentioned in Herodotus’ text.
Note:
Dissertation Radboud University Nijmegen 2018
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110610208
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rookhuijzen, Jan Zacharias van, 1988 - Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes’ invasion Berlin : De Gruyter, 2019 ISBN 9783110610208
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110610205
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Herodotus Historiae
;
Kriegsschauplatz
;
Perserkriege
;
Topografie
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110612530
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Author information:
Rookhuijzen, Jan Zacharias van 1988-
