- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- 1 Authorial Voice and Narrative Management in Herodotus
- 2 Pedestrian Fatalities: The Prosaics of Death in Herodotus
- 3 Panionios of Chios and Hermotimos of Pedasa (Hdt. 8. 104–6)
- 4 Herodotean Chronology Revisited
- 5 Who Was Actually Buried in the First of the Three Spartan Graves (Hdt. 9. 85. 1)? Textual and Historical Problems
- 6 The Oldest ‘New’ Military Historians: Herodotos, W. G. Forrest, and the Historiography of War
- 7 Herodotos (and others) on Pelasgians: Some Perceptions of Ethnicity
- 8 Herodotus’ Conception of Historical Space and the Beginnings of Universal History
- 9 ‘Tradition’ in Herodotus: The Foundation of Cyrene
- 10 Why Did Herodotus not Mention the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
- 11 (Hdt. 6. 108. 1)
- 12 Herodotos (8. 137–8), The Manumissions from Leukopetra, and the Topography of the Middle Haliakmon Valley
- 13 Cleisthenes (of Athens) and Corinth
- 14 ‘Prophecy in reverse’? Herodotus and the Origins of History
- 15 Oracles for Sale
- 16 The Common Oracle of the Milesians and the Argives (Hdt. 6. 19 and 77)
- 17 Herodotus and the ‘Resurrection’
- 18 Herodotos and Athens
- 19 Democracy without Theory
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Select Index of Literary Sources
- Select Epigraphic Index
Authorial Voice and Narrative Management in Herodotus
Authorial Voice and Narrative Management in Herodotus
- Chapter:
- (p.3) 1 Authorial Voice and Narrative Management in Herodotus
- Source:
- Herodotus and his World
- Author(s):
Roger Brock (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Herodotus exhibits a distinctive authorial persona: stylistic features such as prospective sentences, anticipatory constructions, and ring-composition advance the narrative and mark its progress, while signposting and transitional markers lead the audience through it. He alludes to the progress of the narrative, provides cross-references, and asides which serve as explanatory footnotes; engages with the audience in rhetorical questions and second-person addresses, and in other ways reveals his thinking. This is not a product of naïve oral style: he is capable of sophisticated periodic prose, and the work is artfully structured; rather it is a deliberate response to his complex and multifarious material and its broad time-frame and large cast, designed to reassure and guide his audience and to establish his authority.
Keywords: Herodotus, authorial persona, periodic prose
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Dedication
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- 1 Authorial Voice and Narrative Management in Herodotus
- 2 Pedestrian Fatalities: The Prosaics of Death in Herodotus
- 3 Panionios of Chios and Hermotimos of Pedasa (Hdt. 8. 104–6)
- 4 Herodotean Chronology Revisited
- 5 Who Was Actually Buried in the First of the Three Spartan Graves (Hdt. 9. 85. 1)? Textual and Historical Problems
- 6 The Oldest ‘New’ Military Historians: Herodotos, W. G. Forrest, and the Historiography of War
- 7 Herodotos (and others) on Pelasgians: Some Perceptions of Ethnicity
- 8 Herodotus’ Conception of Historical Space and the Beginnings of Universal History
- 9 ‘Tradition’ in Herodotus: The Foundation of Cyrene
- 10 Why Did Herodotus not Mention the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
- 11 (Hdt. 6. 108. 1)
- 12 Herodotos (8. 137–8), The Manumissions from Leukopetra, and the Topography of the Middle Haliakmon Valley
- 13 Cleisthenes (of Athens) and Corinth
- 14 ‘Prophecy in reverse’? Herodotus and the Origins of History
- 15 Oracles for Sale
- 16 The Common Oracle of the Milesians and the Argives (Hdt. 6. 19 and 77)
- 17 Herodotus and the ‘Resurrection’
- 18 Herodotos and Athens
- 19 Democracy without Theory
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Select Index of Literary Sources
- Select Epigraphic Index