Herodotean Narrative and Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3937623 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon Shrimpton, Gordon S Shrimpton, Mabel L Lang |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1088872 |
| OpenAlex | W2015817476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
Mabel Lang offers a new interpretation of Herodotus. Her reading of the ?Father of History? pinpoints the aspects of his style that clearly derive from oral composition. Lang examines oral techniques in storytelling, known from folktales and other oral literature as well as from Homer. She shows how the dramatic use of speeches?so characteristic of folk literature?played an important part in Herodotus' development of history out of the chronologies and geographies that he knew. Story form and speeches attributed to historical persons, she demonstrates, follow traditional formulas. She also studies in detail Herodotus' distinctive use of proverbs and rhetorical questions. Throughout, Lang draws on a variety of materials and offers particularly revealing comparisons of Homeric and Herodotean styles. This analysis of the evidence for oral composition in Herodotus' Histories opens a new perspective for students and scholars of Greek history
Linguistics · Narrative · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy
Truth, Lies, and Freshman Composition
Dramatic Reckoning of the Numeric Kind
Poetry in Speech
The Serpent Column
Time and Space
After Alexander
A New Persian War
Panhellenism
Meaning
Conclusion
Epilogue
Conclusion and Way Ahead
Herodotus
Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece
Herodotus
When words were a power loosed
On "Fussy Authorial Nudges" in Herodotus
Solon’s Poetry and Herodotean Historiography
Between literacy and orality. Herodotus’ historiography
They Spoke the Truest of Words
Arrian’s Scythian Logos
Sight and Seeing in Herodotus
From Aristocratic to Democratic Ideology and Back Again
The Celebratory Purpose of Herodotus
States of Memory
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2021 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |