ISBN:
9783823393290
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (434 pages)
Series Statement:
Classica Monacensia Band 55
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Herodotean soundings
DDC:
935.05092
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Herodotus 3 Historiae
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Kambyses II. Iran, König
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Herodotean Soundings -- Close readings: Linguistic, narratological and philosophical perspectives -- Just Who is Cambyses? -- 1 Overview: the Cambyses logos-doubles, identity, recognition -- 2 Whose Version? Adopting a Persian viewpoint (chs. 1-3) -- 3 Halicarnassian guides (chs. 4-10) -- 4 Pitying Psammenitus (ch. 3.14) -- 5 Whose curiosity? The Ethiopian logos (chs. 17-25) -- 6 Recognizing divinity: Apis (chs. 27-9) -- 7 Who's laughing now? Mocking agalmata (ch. 37) -- 8 Proofs of Madness (chs. 38 and 34-5) -- 9 Cambyses, c'est moi (ch. 64-5) -- 10 What caused the madness of Herodotus' Cambyses? -- 11 Conclusion and Further Directions -- Summary -- Challenge -- Forward -- Bibliography -- Editions of classical authors -- References -- Herodotus' verbal strategies to depict Cambyses' abnormality -- 1 Forward-oriented discourse deixis, and zooming in on horrifying details -- 2 Stress on Cambyses' nonverbal and verbal illogicality -- 3 The contrast with judicious logos (epilogue of the story) -- 4 Negative markers and counterfactual conditionals: allusions to 'normal' counterparts -- 5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Editions of classical authors -- References -- Relativism in Herodotus -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Distinguishing Relativisms -- 3 Crimes in a Foreign Land: Cultural Relativism and the Judgement of Cambyses -- 4 Judging other Cultures: Herodotus on Babylon -- 5 Relativising the Gods and the Holy: Epistemological and Theological Relativism in Herodotus -- 6 Knowledge about the Divine: Positive Knowledge -- 7 Tradition and the Ethnos -- 8 Clash: Scythians and Greeks -- 9 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- The Cambyses logos and other sources on the conquest of Egypt -- Perception and Reception of Cambyses as Conqueror and King of Egypt -- 1 Basal source criticism.
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