Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The
mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture …

This volume explores the spatial framework of Herodotus' Histories, the Greek historian's
account of Persian imperialism in the sixth and fifth century BC and its culmination in a …

This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural
elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry …

Women's mobility is central to understanding cultural constructions of gender. Regarding
ancient cultures, including ancient Greece, a re-evaluation of women's mobility within the …

Media Boundaries and Conceptual Modelling forms part of the humanities tradition by facing
one of the fundamental problems since antiquity: how different media represent the world we …

Charles W. Fornara's Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay (Oxford, 1971) was a landmark
publication in the study of the great Greek historian. Well-known in particular for its main …

EXPLANATION OR COMMENT”—IS ALMOST AS OLD AS WRITING ITSELF (“annotation”).
Among the first texts to be written down, Ho mer's oral poems survive thanks first to …

In Juvenal's Global Awareness Osman Umurhan applies theories of globalization to an
investigation of Juvenal's articulation and understanding of empire, imperialism and identity …

In Books 6 and 7 Thucydides' narrative is, as Plutarch puts it,'at its most emotional, vivid, and
varied'as he describes the Sicilian Expedition that ended so catastrophically for Athens (415 …

Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers
supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not …