Cover -- Titelei -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface - Robert Rollinger and Brigitte Truschnegg -- "Wilde sind eben nicht unvernünftiger": Reinhold Bichler's Herodotus' World Twenty Years after its Publication - Kai Ruffing -- Herodotus' World --...
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Cover -- Titelei -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface - Robert Rollinger and Brigitte Truschnegg -- "Wilde sind eben nicht unvernünftiger": Reinhold Bichler's Herodotus' World Twenty Years after its Publication - Kai Ruffing -- Herodotus' World -- The Histories in Context: Some Reflections on Publication, Reception, and Interpretation - Elizabeth Irwin -- Herodots Erzählung von Adrastos und Atys in ihrer Abhängigkeit von Antiphons zweiter Tetralogie - Daniel Kiechl -- Herodotus on the Evolution of Human Society - Thomas Harrison -- Herodotus and Naval Power - Kai Ruffing -- After Herodotus: Images of 'Tyrants' and the Art of Diplomacy - Sabine Müller -- Herodotus and the Others -- Shaping Identity by Literature: Udjahorresnet and Herodotus on Cambyses' Egypt - Sabine Kubisch & -- Hilmar Klinkott -- The Variety of Religion in Herodotus's Histories: Two Examples from his Narrative on Egypt - Andreas Schwab -- Another Dialogue: Herodotus, Thucydides and the Long Walls of Athens - Julian Degen -- Herodotus Ironized: the Father of Historiography as Reference for Lucian of Samosata - Alexander Free -- Polycrates and the Herodotean Tradition in Maximos of Tyre's Philosophical Orations - Jakub Kuciak -- Authors -- Index.
With pleasure we are presenting the proceedings of the international conference “Herodot‘s World – The World of Herodotus” which took place in Innsbruck from the 1st December – 3 rd December 2020. The conference that had to be organised as an online event due to the pandemic had as its aim to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Reinhold Bichler’s highly acclaimed monograph Herodots’ World. Der Aufbau der Historie am Bild der fremden Länder und Völker, ihrer Zivilisation und ihrer Geschichte, Berlin
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