Reviews for Language of Literature

The average rating for Language of Literature based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-02 00:00:00 Margaret Watts The first half of this book is really enlightening as it takes the scythian discourse and dissects in great detail. Hartog does an excellent job of showing how much of the logos itself; the ethnographic framing of the Scythians, certain actions and interactions between them and the Persians - are all finely crafted to make the narrative intelligeable to a Greek audience. Often this takes the form of the Scythians and Persians as being stand-ins for the Greeks in their interactions between each other. The second half of the book is a bit more of a slog.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-11-08 00:00:00 Dora Leonard I'm afraid I found this book incredibly tedious... too much in the weeds and lacking a direction or big picture view. I'm always fascinated by Greek culture, so a number of the details were really interesting, but I feel the author failed to paint the picture of Herodotus as a mirror of his time, and the original historian of Greek civilisation that he is.