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The book analyses Herodotus' Histories by applying the natural narratology theory. The study presents his work not only as a general account of Greek history in a rationalizing, personal narrative of the historian who codifies it in a textual framework, but also as a conglomerate of numerous oral stories with a conversational narration structure.

In the aftermath of the Persian Wars, not only new geopolitical borders were established in the Hellenic world, but there also emerged an intracultural line between the worlds of oral and increasing textual modes of communication. This book seeks to prove that these cultural changes are mirrored in a verbal work of art in the texts of Herodotus. The analysis of his texts, by applying the natural narratology theory, shows a specific and extraordinary mediacy between both approaches to communication. On the one hand, his Histories present a general account of the recent Greek history in a rationalizing and personal narrative of the historian who codifies it in a textual framework. On the other hand, they seem to consist of a conglomerate of numerous oral stories, which may assume a conversational narration structure.

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