Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus

A study of the representation of human motivation in Herodotus' Histories. Emily Baragwanath's focus is upon the sophisticated narrative techniques with which Herodotus represents this elusive kind of historical knowledge.

Emily Baragwanath is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

A well-crafted and in depth analysis of motivation and narrative in Herodotus... Baragwanath makes a unique contribution to the excellent quality of Herodotean scholarship that we have seen in recent years. Hyun Jin Kim, Prudentia Emily Baragwanath's study of motivation in Herodotus provides a reading of the text that is attentive to detail and subtle, but never loses a sense of empirically plausible processes of composition and reception. Malcolm Heath, Greece and Rome provocative, stimulating, dense, and oftern brilliant monograph... it deals in a highly original and illuminating way with the relationship between ascriptions of motive and the larger narrative strategies of the Histories. Michael A. Flower, Bryn Mawr Classical Review a subtle, meticulous, and very original study. Carolyn Dewald, Hermathena