Title Herodotus : a very short introduction / Jennifer T. Roberts

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 123 p.) : ill., map, port Series Very short introductions ; 272 Very short introductions ; 272 Summary Jennifer Roberts introduces the background and writing of the 5th-century Greek thinker and researcher, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who invented the genre of historical investigation. Herodotus is shown to be a reporter, a tourist and a historian Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Herodotus -- Criticism and interpretation Historiography -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 History, Ancient -- Historiography. Greece -- History -- Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C -- Historiography Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191777707

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