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Mythology and the Expedition of Xerxes
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This chapter considers the role that mythology plays in the later, somewhat more 'historical' part of Herodotus' work, to see whether there is anything qualitatively different in the way myth is used in these books compared with the earlier ones. The novelty in the use of myth is to be seen in two principal ways. First, in the way in which, on Xerxes' march, mythology is not simply brought into the narrative to provide extra information about an event, person, or place, but to provide a runni...
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- Oxford University Press
- Host title:
- Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus
- Publication date:
- 2012-09-20
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- 9780199693979
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- 2012
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