The way of Herodotus : travels with the man who invented history / Justin Marozzi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Cambridge, MA] : Da Capo Press, 2008.Edition: 1st Da Capo Press edDescription: xv, 348 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780306816215
  • 0306816210
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.92 22
LOC classification:
  • D56.52.H45 M38 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Dog-headed men, gold-digging ants and flying snakes, or, Why we should all read Herodotus -- Turkey. Priestesses with beards ; Underwater Herodotus -- Iraq. Fools and wars ; Baghdad, evangelicals and mocking madmen ; Babylon -- Egypt. Memphis and Thebes : tall stories and self-immolating cats, or, No sex in temples, please, we're Egyptian ; Herodotus in Hollywood (and the Sahara) ; Cairo, mother of the world -- Greece. Athens, city hall of wisdom ; Herodotus meets Aristotle ; Thessaloniki : history on the front line ; An exorcism ; Lunch (and a good deal of Retsina) with Patrick Leigh Fermor ; 'Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!' ; Wassailing gods, pious priests and tearful monks.
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Book Book Stonewall Non-Fiction D 56.52 MAR 2008 1 Available sexual orientation addressed on many pages 03068162151

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-333) and index.

Introduction: Dog-headed men, gold-digging ants and flying snakes, or, Why we should all read Herodotus -- Turkey. Priestesses with beards ; Underwater Herodotus -- Iraq. Fools and wars ; Baghdad, evangelicals and mocking madmen ; Babylon -- Egypt. Memphis and Thebes : tall stories and self-immolating cats, or, No sex in temples, please, we're Egyptian ; Herodotus in Hollywood (and the Sahara) ; Cairo, mother of the world -- Greece. Athens, city hall of wisdom ; Herodotus meets Aristotle ; Thessaloniki : history on the front line ; An exorcism ; Lunch (and a good deal of Retsina) with Patrick Leigh Fermor ; 'Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!' ; Wassailing gods, pious priests and tearful monks.

issues of sexual orientation addressed on inside flyleaf, pages xiii, 6-7, 21, 144-45, 168-71, 173, 179, 200, 206, 236, 240-41.

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