Herodotean ironies

‘Irony/ironic’ are terms frequently used in discussion of Herodotus, whether applied to particular passages or to the text as a whole. This paper aims to distinguish di8erent types of irony which have been or can be detected in the text of the Histories, and to map these on a spectrum ranging from t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rutherford, R
Format: Journal article
Published: Newcastle University 2018