The Mirror of Herodotus

副标题: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History (The New Historicism : Studies in Cultural Poetics, 5)

ISBN: 9780520054875

出版社: University of California Press

出版年: 1988-01-15

页数: 411

定价: USD 65.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Herodotus's great work is not only an account of the momentous historical conflict between the Greeks and the Persians but also the earliest sustained exploration in the West of the problem of cultural difference. Fran?ois Hartog asks fundamental questions about how Herodotus represented this difference. How did he and his readers understand the customs and beliefs of those who were not Greek? How did the historian convince his readers that his account of other peoples was reliable? How is it possible to comprehend a way of life radically different from one's own? What are the linguistic, rhetorical, and philosophical means by which Herodotus fashions his text into a mirror of the marginal and unknown? In answering these questions, Hartog transforms our understanding of the "father of history." His Herodotus is less the chronicler of a victorious Greece than a brilliant writer in pursuit of otherness.