The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History

The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History

Author
François Hartog
Publication Year

"Originally published in French in 1980, this book was instrumental in calling the attention of classicists to the distorted mirror through which historians in antiquity represented the image of the 'Other' in order to enhance their own self-representation."

Recommended by Erich S. Gruen, Professor of History and Classics and author of Rethinking the Other in Antiquity.