TY - BOOK N2 - "Herodotus, the worldwide ethnographer and historian of the Persian Wars, provides a striking demonstration of how the account of past events of national history and the description of foreign peoples participate in the rhetoric of shaping attitudes about the present. Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus studies the narrative of the Histories in order to uncover the political message communicated to a Greek audience of the fifth century B.C."--Jacket. AB - "Herodotus, the worldwide ethnographer and historian of the Persian Wars, provides a striking demonstration of how the account of past events of national history and the description of foreign peoples participate in the rhetoric of shaping attitudes about the present. Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus studies the narrative of the Histories in order to uncover the political message communicated to a Greek audience of the fifth century B.C."--Jacket. T1 - Telling wonders :ethnographic and political discourse in the work of Herodotus / DA - ©2001. CY - Ann Arbor : AU - Munson, Rosaria Vignolo. CN - D58 CN - D58 PB - University of Michigan Press, PP - Ann Arbor : PY - ©2001. ID - 1381235 KW - History, Ancient KW - Ethnology KW - Ethnologie KW - Histoire ancienne KW - Histoire ancienne KW - Ethnologie KW - 18.43 ancient Greek literature. KW - Ethnology. KW - History, Ancient KW - Political and social views. KW - Ethnologie KW - Politische Einstellung KW - Historiae (Herodotus) KW - Vertelkunst. KW - Beeldvorming. KW - Het vreemde. KW - Het Verleden. KW - Politieke ideologie. KW - History, Ancient. SN - 0472112031 SN - 9780472112036 TI - Telling wonders :ethnographic and political discourse in the work of Herodotus / ER -