Herodotus in Nubia /

Herodotus in Nubia /

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Main Author: Török, László, 1941- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014].

Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 368.

Subjects:

Herodotus > Knowledge > Nubia.
Nubia > History > Sources.

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Call Number: DT159.6 .N83 T57 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • 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".