Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography
A D Morrison | Cambridge University Press | 2020 | English | Pages: 254 | ISBN: 1108492320, 9781108492324 | 1 MB | pdf
This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of Herodotus, focusing on the presence of the latter text in the former in terms of the poems employment of characteristics and features of historiographical discourse, narrative structures, presentation and description of characters, aetiology and patterns of explanation, portrayal of ethnic groups, depiction of kingship and tyranny; the relationship between particular passages in both texts is also...