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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dillery, John

Titel

A Herodotean Conference; P. Derow, R. Parker (edd.): Herodotus and His World. Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest. Pp. xiv + 378, maps, ills. Oxford University Press, 2003. Cased, £55. ISBN: 0-19-925374-9

Ist Teil von

• The Classical Review, 2005, Vol.55 (1), p.44

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Overall, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of Aristophanes writings both from a linguistic and from a literary perspective; it contains the best and most thorough analyses yet produced of certain passages, as well as much new information on the interpretation of certain types of usage. Yet it does not attempt to be a complete study of the subject of Greek linguistic variation, even in Aristophanes; the few case studies examined are narrowly dened (as was necessary to make room for the thoroughness with which they are investigated), and possibilities for further work leap out at the reader from every chapter. According to Boedeker, Herodotus gives us a narrative that can be usefully thought of as dialogic, one that has the feel of being de-centered, in progress, heteroglossic (p. 31). [...]Jos Miguel Alonso-Nez examines how Herodotus pregures later universal historians, and Angelos Matthaiou discusses Herodotus account of Marathon and the topography of the site, bringing to this problematic issue important and (in some cases) new epigraphic evidence.