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" Herodotus in Nubia / "
by László Török
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BL
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651131
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Török, László,1941-
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Herodotus in Nubia /\ by László Török
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| Series Statement
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Mnemosyne, supplements ; volume 368
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xiv, 163 pages ;; 24 cm
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9789004269132 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
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: 9004269134 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
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9789004273887 ((e-book))
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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"
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Herodotus-- Knowledge-- Nubia
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Nubia, History, Sources
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| Dewey Classification
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939/.78
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DT159.6.N83T57 2014
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