Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the "Father of History" pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches--so characteristic of folk literature--played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologies and geographies that he knew. Story form and speeches attributed to ...
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Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the "Father of History" pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches--so characteristic of folk literature--played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologies and geographies that he knew. Story form and speeches attributed to historical persons, she demonstrates, follow traditional formulas. She also studies in detail Herodotus' distinctive use of proverbs and rhetorical questions. Throughout, Lang draws on a variety of materials and offers particularly revealing comparisons of Homeric and Herodotean styles. This analysis of the evidence for oral composition in Herodotus' Histories opens a new perspective for students and scholars of Greek history.
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Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 0674389859. Crimped corners, otherwise text clean and solid; no dust jacket; Martin Classical Lectures; V. 28; 0.78 x 9.59 x 6.35 Inches; 192 pages.
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Hbk 179pp no dj very good cloth boards ex public library with usual library markings otherwise an excellent clean tight text and a superior working copy.
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Very Good. 1984. Hardcover. Cloth. Octavo. viii & 179 pp. Mild shelf wear to boards. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient, Greek Literature).
