Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781009338547 |
| ISBN10: | 1009338544 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 272 pages |
| Size: | 235x158x20 mm |
| Weight: | 540 g |
| Language: | English |
| 721 |
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Herodotus and the Presocratics
Inquiry and Intellectual Culture in the Fifth Century BCE
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 14 March 2024
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Short description:
Places Herodotus' Histories in dialogue with Presocratic thought and explores their reception in later philosophical culture.
Long description:
Herodotus' Histories was composed well before the genre of Greek historiography emerged as a distinct narrative enterprise. This book explores it within its fifth-century context alongside the extant fragments of Presocratic treatises as well as philosophizing tragedy and comedy. It argues for the Histories' competitive engagement with contemporary intellectual culture and demonstrates its ambition as an experimental prose work, tracing its responses to key debates on relativism, human nature, and epistemology. In addition to expanding the intellectual milieu of which the Histories is a part and restoring its place in Presocratic thought, K. Scarlett Kingsley elucidates fourth-century philosophy's subsequent engagement with the work. In doing so, she contributes to a revision of the sharp separation between the ancient genres of philosophy and history. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
'Kingsley's insightful analysis of the Histories' laboratory makes Herodotus and the Presocratics a must-read for Herodotean scholars, as well as for anyone interested in classical Greek intellectual history.' Davide Napoli, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'Kingsley's insightful analysis of the Histories' laboratory makes Herodotus and the Presocratics a must-read for Herodotean scholars, as well as for anyone interested in classical Greek intellectual history.' Davide Napoli, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: transtextual histories: history, philosophy, and intellectual culture; 2. Relativism, king of all; 3. The pull of tradition: egoism and Persian revolution; 4. History peri physeos; 5. Physis on the battlefield; 6. Historical inquiry and presocratic epistemology; 7. Herodotean philosophy.
