Deligiannis Herodoti Historia per Matthiam Palmierum Pisanum e Graeco in Latinum versa

The Latin Translation of Herodotus’ ›Histories‹ by Mattia Palmieri
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-134038-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 13, 749 Seiten

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The book contains the of Mattia Palmieri’s mid-fifteenth-century Latin translation of Herodotus’ , almost contemporary or even earlier than that by Lorenzo Valla. It also investigates the intellectual and historical milieu in which Palmieri produced it as preparatory work for his historical works and to secure patronage under a church prelate by offering it to Cardinal Prospero Colonna. It includes some information on Palmieri’s life and work and Herodotus’ , a brief comparison between Palmieri’s and Valla’s translations, Palmieri’s Greek model and Livy’s influence on him in language and style. It finally approaches some methodological issues related to editing a text preserved in authorially revised versions, because the translation shows three different stages of revision. This first approach of Herodotus by Western scholars is significant, because Herodotus was foremost read as a quarry of information of ethnographical, geographical, historical and anthropological nature, in order for the Europeans to understand peoples they encountered on their exploratory voyages and the Ottomans, who were considered as descendants of the Persians.

Zielgruppe

Scholars in the fields of Classics, History, Reception Studies, H

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deligiannis, Ioannis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Ioannis Deligiannis, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece.