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Hardcover. Condition: Fine EX-LIBRARY. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket, as issued. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed. Leiden / Boston / Koln: Brill, 2002. Fine condition. Mild EX-LIBRARY with NO library indications on the spine or cover. "Withdrawn" stamp on a "Date Due" slip, and one library ink stamp on the top edge of the text block. SEE OUR PHOTOS. NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Square and tight. We have only this one copy, but it is available now and ready to ship today from Henderson, Nevada. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Footnotes. Extensive bibliography. General Index. Index of passages. Bound in the original gray pictorial cloth. From the publisher: "Herodotus' Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and 'archaic', the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, religious, moral and social influences, but actively contributing to the great debates of their time. Their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. This Companion offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all these current approaches to Herodotus' remarkable work.". 1st ed? (No additional printings listed. Hardcover. Fine EX-LIBRARY/No dust jacket, as issued. 8vo. xxii, 652pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Original Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Slight bumping to top edge of spine. Light creasing to dustjacket. Light soiling ot top edge. Slight wear to spine, covers and corners.; Octavo; xv, 464 pages.

xx, 652 pages. 25 chapters. Biblio. General Index. Index of Passages. Thick 4to 9 3/4" tall. Pictorial boards. Clean. Bright and Sharp. Tightly bound. Appears never used. Like new condition.