Motivation and narrative in Herodotus
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Motivation and narrative in Herodotus
（Oxford classical monographs）
Oxford University Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-341) and indexes
Contents of Works
- The Histories, Plutarch, and reader response
- The Homeric background
- Constructions of motives and the historian's persona
- Problematized motivation in the Samian and Persian logoi (Book III)
- For better, for worse : motivation in the Athenian logoi (Books I, V, and VI)
- "For freedom's sake" : motivation in the Ionian revolt (Books V-VI)
- To medize or not to medize : compulsion and negative motives (Books VII-IX)
- Xerxes : motivation and explanation (Books VII-IX)
- Themistocles : constructions of motivation (Books VII-IX)
