Narrative Unity and Units
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20077948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irene J F De Jong (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Pages | 243-266 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Brill's Companion to Herodotus (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004217584_012 |
| OpenAlex | W63219881 |
| ISBN | 9789004217584 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
The first part of this chapter gives a historical overview of the ways in which scholars have defended Herodotus' unity, concentrating on formal rather than thematic arguments. The second part of the chapter discusses the various devices which Herodotus employs to create unity. The last part of the chapter shows the working of such devices in a specific passage. The Histories consists of a series of logoi , narrative units, which are usually demarcated by ring-composition, which vary in length and which may themselves consist of smaller logoi . The author concludes that an in-depth study of the term logos, both inside the Histories and in the literature of his time is a desideratum, and the age-old storyteller's device of the flashback or analepsis has become a powerful instrument of historical narration in the hands of Herodotus. Keywords: analepsis; Herodotus' unity; logoi ; Narrative units; ring-composition
Art · Literature · Logos Bible Software · Narrative · Theology · Chemistry · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |