Komizm w "Dziejach" Herodota z Halikarnasu – wybrane przykłady
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2010
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Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk
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Humor in the Histories of Herodotus – selected examples
Abstract
In the present article I discuss the comic elements engaged by Herodotus in the verbal stratum and content
of the Histories. Therefore, I analyze puns as a stylistic devise used by Historian to put an emphasis on some
parts of the narrative, esp. on the ethnographic and historical one, after that I discuss selected episodes paying
special attention to their ironic dimension. I also try to show how Herodotus uses his literary technique in its
comic range not only to make the public of his oral presentations laughing but also to teach them how to live in
the wise manner but not without the humour itself. Because Docere apart from Delectare was one of the main
purposes of the ancient historical writing.
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Histories, Humour, Irony, Narrative
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Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2010, nr XX/2, s. 19-26
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978–83–7654–059–7
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0302–7384