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Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion
- Title
- Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion / Jan Zacharias van Rookhuijzen.
- Author
- Rookhuijzen, Jan Zacharias van, 1988-
- Publication
- Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-1876 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 373 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This book argues that Herodotus' topography of the Persian Wars, long taken at face value, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes' invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them"--
- Uniform Title
- Where Xerxes throne once stood
- Alternative Title
- Where Xerxes throne once stood
- Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion : place and memory in Greece and Anatolia
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Radboud University, 2018, titled Where Xerxes throne once stood: gazing with Herodotus at the Persian invasion in the landscapes of Greece and Anatolia.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1876
- ISBN
- 9783110610208
- 3110610205
- LCCN
- 2018030915
- OCLC
- 1044836220
- Author
- Rookhuijzen, Jan Zacharias van, 1988- author.
- Title
- Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion / Jan Zacharias van Rookhuijzen.
- Publisher
- Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- 500-449 B.C.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Rookhuijzen, Jan Zacharias van, 1988- author. Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes' invasion Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018] 9783110612530 (DLC) 2018043255
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1876