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- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus’ <i>Histories</i>
- Part I From Myth to Historical Method
- 1 Myth and Legend in Herodotus’ First Book
- 2 Herodotus and the ‘Myth’ of the Trojan War
- 3 Herodotus’ Proteus: Myth, History, Enquiry, and Storytelling
- 4 The Helen <i>Logos</i> and Herodotus’ Fingerprint
- 5 ‘Strangers are from Zeus’: Homeric <i>Xenia</i> at the Courts of Proteus and Croesus
- 6 Herodotus on Melampus
- Part II Myth and History
- 7 Herodotus and the Heroic Age: The Case of Minos
- 8 Myth and Truth in Herodotus’ Cyrus Logos
- 9 Herodotus and Eastern Myths and <i>Logoi</i>: Deioces the Mede and Pythius the Lydian
- 10 The Mythical Origins of the Medes and the Persians
- 11 Mythology and the Expedition of Xerxes
- 12 Returning to Troy: Herodotus and the Mythic Discourse of his own Time
- References
- Index locorum
- General Index
(p.57) Part I From Myth to Historical Method
(p.57) Part I From Myth to Historical Method
- Source:
- Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693979.011.0001
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- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus’ <i>Histories</i>
- Part I From Myth to Historical Method
- 1 Myth and Legend in Herodotus’ First Book
- 2 Herodotus and the ‘Myth’ of the Trojan War
- 3 Herodotus’ Proteus: Myth, History, Enquiry, and Storytelling
- 4 The Helen <i>Logos</i> and Herodotus’ Fingerprint
- 5 ‘Strangers are from Zeus’: Homeric <i>Xenia</i> at the Courts of Proteus and Croesus
- 6 Herodotus on Melampus
- Part II Myth and History
- 7 Herodotus and the Heroic Age: The Case of Minos
- 8 Myth and Truth in Herodotus’ Cyrus Logos
- 9 Herodotus and Eastern Myths and <i>Logoi</i>: Deioces the Mede and Pythius the Lydian
- 10 The Mythical Origins of the Medes and the Persians
- 11 Mythology and the Expedition of Xerxes
- 12 Returning to Troy: Herodotus and the Mythic Discourse of his own Time
- References
- Index locorum
- General Index
