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Taking eight excerpts from the Histories of Herodotus, Dimitris Maronitis dubs four of them novellas and four of them anecdotes. He comments on them in five interconnected essays that form a new, contemporary text, a post-modern, inter-textual narrative. The themes of oriental fundamentalism in the time of Herodotus, ideological constructs of the barbarian Other and the civilized We, belief in divine justice and oppression by autocratic regimes are all more relevant than ever, and Maronitis highlights them convincingly in what is a remarkably original reading of Herodotus.
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