Plutarch: Malice of Herodotos - 9780856685699

Plutarch Malice of Herodotos\nby A. J. Bowen\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: A. J. Bowen\nTitle: Plutarch Malice of Herodotos\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Ancient, classical and medieval texts\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 1992\nISBN-13: 9780856685699\nISBN-10: 0856685690\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the course of 'correcting' with considerable vituperation what he saw as Herodotus' anti-Greek bias, Plutarch tells us much about his own attitude to writing history.\n\nThe Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the co.