Herodotus in Nubia
| 1. Verfasser: |
Török, Laszló, 1941-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden :
Brill,
2014.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiv, 163 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
368 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Herodotus' Nubia in modern scholarship
- Images of Nubia in Herodotean scholarship
- Herodotus halfway between Egyptology and Nubian studies
- Excursus 1: the kingdom of Kush from the eighth to the fifth century BC: a brief overview
- The Aithiopian passages in English translation
- The problem of the "Aithiopian logos"
- The context of the Aithiopian passages: introductory remarks
- Was there an unfinished Aithiopian logos?
- "Fiction" and "reality"
- On sources
- Excursus 2: Herodotus' priestly informants and the explanation of the Nile flood
- Sesostris in Nubia
- Excursus 3: a note on ancient Nubian archives
- Sabacos in Egypt
- Psamtek II in Nubia
- Aithiopians in the Siwa Oasis
- Herodotus' two Aithiopias 1: Aithiopia south of Egypt, with notes on oracles
- Herodotus' two Aithiopias 2: the land of the long-lived Aithiopians on the fringes of the inhabited world
- Excursus 4: Herodotus and Agatharchides
- The land of the long-lived Aithiopians continued
- The gifts presented to the king of Persia by the Aithiopians living south of Egypt
- Aithiopian passages in the Libyan logos: the autochthonous origin of the Aithiopians, the Aithiopian troglodytes
- A meditation on the fringes
- Aithiopian "half-men" in the army of Xerxes I
- Herodotus in Nubia
- Herodotus' sources on Kushite kingship
- "Reflections in a distant mirror".
