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The mirror of Herodotus: The representation of the other in by François Hartog

By François Hartog

Herodotus's nice paintings is not just an account of the momentous ancient clash among the Greeks and the Persians but in addition the earliest sustained exploration within the West of the matter of cultural distinction. François Hartog asks basic questions about how Herodotus represented this distinction. How did he and his readers comprehend the customs and ideology of these who weren't Greek? How did the historian persuade his readers that his account of different peoples used to be trustworthy? How is it attainable to appreciate a life-style noticeably diverse from one's personal? What are the linguistic, rhetorical, and philosophical ability in which Herodotus models his textual content right into a reflect of the marginal and unknown? In answering those questions, Hartog transforms our realizing of the "father of history." His Herodotus is much less the chronicler of a triumphant Greece than a super author in pursuit of otherness.

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The latter divide into three groups: Diodoros and Trogus (as epitomized by Justin), who both wrote universal histories; Plutarch, who has left us our only surviving biography; and Curtius and Arrian, who confined themselves to Alexander's campaigns alone. Diodoros, Plutarch, and Arrian hold him in high esteem, while Trogus/Justin and Curtius paint a darker picture of a gradually deteriorating character, particularly after the death of Darius. C. 28 Aiming to make world history accessible to the ordinary reader by judicious selection from the major authorities, he weaves his patchwork around a program for moral living.

HN 35. 109: Nec fuit alius in arte velocior. Tradunt . . [Nicomachum] Telesti poetae monimentum . . paucis diebus absolvisse et celeritate et arte mira. 81. Vitr. 3 praef. vv. 82 Furthermore, impressionism was above all a Hellenistic technique, but to Pliny and Vitruvius, Hellenistic painting was decadent art. The simple fact that they praise the technique of the two painters excludes impressionism altogether. Fortunately, there is another explanation that is all too often overlooked. In the Greek lexicographers, "brevity" and "speed" in painting are associated with the abbreviation of figures, with letting the part stand for the whole.

31. 8; Arr. Ahab. 3. 7. 6. On the dates see Bosworth 1980a: 219, 287.  < previous page < previous page page_134 page_135 next page > next page > Page 2.  Devine.  Agrianians and Greek mercenaries.  Alexander breaks through the Persian left and advances toward Darius.  Thessalian cavalry rout and pursue Persian right-wing cavalry.  Macedonian phalanx advances against Darius's Greek mercenaries.  Phalanx battalions of Koinos and Perdikkas break through Darius's Greek mercenaries and wheel left to aid remaining battalions of phalanx.

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