Brill's companion to the reception of Herodotus in antiquity and beyond / / edited by Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Priestley, Jessica,; Zali, Vasiliki,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (454 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; 1 Herodotus in Thucydides: A Hypothesis /; 2 Herodotus and His Successors: The Rhetoric of the Persian Wars in Thucydides and Xenophon /; 3 Duris of Samos and a Herodotean Model for Writing History /; 4 “This is What Herodotus Relates”: The Presence of Herodotus’ Histories in Josephus’ Writings /; 5 History without Malice: Plutarch Rewrites the Battle of Plataea /; 6 Herodotus in Renaissance France /; 7 The Anti-Thucydides: Herodotus and the Development of Modern Historiography /; 8 Herodotus’ Reception in Ancient Greek Lexicography and Grammar: From the Hellenistic to the Imperial Age /; 9 Herodotus’ Reputation in Latin Literature from Cicero to the 12th Century /; 10 Valla’s Herodotean Labours: Towards a New View of Herodotus in the Italian Renaissance /; 11 Herodotus and Narrative Art in Renaissance Ferrara: The Translation of Matteo Maria Boiardo /; 12 The ‘Rediscovery’ of Egypt: Herodotus and His Account of Egypt in the Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute-Égypte (1802) by Vivant Denon /; 13 Not beyond Herodotus? Psammetichus’ Experiment and Modern Thought about Language /; 14 Herodotus (and Ctesias) Re-enacted: Leadership in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia /; 15 Pausanias and the Footsteps of Herodotus /; 16 Ryszard Kapuściński’s Travels with Herodotus: Reportage from the Self /; 17 Herodotus in Fiction: Gore Vidal’s Creation /; Bibliography --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900429984X
• ISSN: 2213-1426
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond offers new insights on the reception and cultural transmission of one of the most controversial and influential texts to have survived from Classical Antiquity. Herodotus’ Histories has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired and criticized across diverse genres, historical periods, and geographical boundaries. This companion, edited by Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali, examines the reception of Herodotus in a range of cultural contexts, from the fifth century BC to the twentieth century AD. The essays consider key topics such as Herodotus' place in the Western historiographical tradition, translation of and scholarly engagement with the Histories , and the use of the Histories as a model for describing and interpreting cultural and geographical material.