Ignorance is bliss? Geographical knowledge in Herodotus and Thucydides
This article explores the value attached to geographical knowledge, firstly in the work of Herodotus and then in comparison with a key Thucydidean episode. Having established the desirability of knowledge at least for the historian himself, it considers Herodotean episodes in which the geographical...
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Newcastle University
2019
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