Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion /
[Book]
Jan Zacharias van Rookhuijzen.
Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2019]
xvi, 373 pages ;
25 cm
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Radboud University, 2018, titled Where Xerxes throne once stood: gazing with Herodotus at the Persian invasion in the landscapes of Greece and Anatolia.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"This book argues that Herodotus' topography of the Persian Wars, long taken at face value, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes' invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them"--
Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion
9783110612530
Where Xerxes throne once stood
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