I generi della geografia e della storia: il caso dell’ "Anabasi"

• Autores: Roberto Nicolai
• Localización: Tra geografia e storiografia / coord. por Roberto Nicolai, Antonio Luis Chávez Reino, 2020, ISBN 978-84-18254-21-5, págs. 113-130
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The paper addresses the question of literary genres that with their different strategies contribute to the formation of Xenophon’s Anabasis and in particular the geographical and ethnographic sections. If the theme of travel brings with it a Homeric, and in particular Odyssean, memory, this memory is overlapped by the Herodotean model in the description of the customs of non-Greek peoples. Herodotus and Xenophon have different aims and interests and the paradigms they propose are different. The geographical and ethnographic sections can be investigated as examples of descriptions, which should not be considered as digressions, but interact with the narrative with their own strategy and literary code.