| Edition |
First Da Capo Press edition. |
| Description |
xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-333) and index. |
| 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 preists and tearful monks. |
| Subject |
Herodotus. History.
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Herodotus.
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Marozzi, Justin, 1970- -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region.
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Marozzi, Justin, 1970- -- Travel -- Iraq.
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History, Ancient -- Historiography.
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Mediterranean Region -- Description and travel.
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Iraq -- Description and travel.
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| ISBN |
9780306816215 |
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0306816210 |
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