Herodotus in Nubia

by Török, László

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Title Statements

Full title :Herodotus in Nubia / by László Török.

Summary

"Twentieth century commentaries on Herodotus' passages on Nubia, the historical kingdom of Kush and the Aithiopia of the Greek tradition, rely mostly on an outdated and biased interpretation of the textual and archaeological evidence. Disputing both the Nubia image of twentieth century Egyptology and the Herodotus interpretation of traditional Quellenkritik, the author traces back the Aithiopian information that was available to Herodotus to a discourse on Kushite kingship created under the Nubian pharaohs of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and preserved in the Ptah sanctuary at Memphis. Insufficient for a self-contained Aithiopian logos, the information acquired by Herodotus complements and supports accounts of the land, origins, customs and history of other peoples and bears a relation to the intention of the actual narrative contexts into which the author of the Histories inserted it."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 163 pages : : map ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789004269132, 9004269134
oclc:ocn871820767
LC Classification:DT159.6.N83
Dewey Decimal:939/.78

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 Trog[l]odytes ; A meditation on the fr…