How Long to Read Sophist Kings

How Long Does it Take to Read Sophist Kings?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Sophist Kings by Vernon L. Provencal

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus' Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a sophistic ideology. The Persians as the Greek 'other' have a crucial role throughout Herodotus' Histories, but their characterisation is far divorced from historical reality. Instead, from their first appearance at the beginning of the Histories, Herodotus presents the Persians as adept in the argumentation of Greek sophists active in mid-5th century Athens. Moreover, Herodotus' construct of the Sophist King, in whom political reason serves human ambition, is used to explain the Achaemenid model of kingship whose rule is grounded in a theological knowledge of cosmic order and of divine justice as the political good. This original and in-depth study explores how the ideology which Herodotus ascribes to the Persians comes directly from fifth-century sophists whose arguments served to justify Athenian imperialism. The volume connects the ideological conflict between panhellenism and imperialism in Herodotus' contemporary Greece to his representation of the past conflict between Greek freedom and Persian imperialism. Detecting a universal paradigm, Sophist Kings argues that Herodotus was suggesting the Athenians should regard their own empire as a betrayal of the common cause by which they led the Greeks to victory in the Persian wars.

How long is Sophist Kings?

Sophist Kings by Vernon L. Provencal is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sophist Kings Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Sophist Kings aloud.

What Reading Level is Sophist Kings?

Sophist Kings is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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