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The Greek Travel Book from the Animist View of the World to the Critical Prose

This article is a review and historic literary analysis of the Greek travel book prior to Hellenism. Most of the discussed are well known books which are now reconsidered so far that they are travel books. Many myths are travel books and this reveals that the travel book can be ranged among the most ancient genres. The Odyssey is uncommon travel book because it does not describe the hero who sets sails for travel but his coming back home. His travel is the sailing of mythic hero accross the world populated by divinities. Herodotus' travel book is linked to the Myth and is drifting towards the historiography and Greek prose. His travel book is strongly anecdotic. The ANABASIS by Xenophon is also a travel book and it is the description of the way back home of this officer who has acquited Persian service and also it is a defending script. His KIROV PAIDEIA is a biography of the Persian Emperor Cyrus but from time to time he describes the travels of his biographee. It may not be the case that Alexander has conquered exactly the countries which prior to him had been described in the travel books. The Greek travel book written by the Greeks serving the Persian emperors and others, inspired by some traders, encompassed the world from Thula down to Taprobana and merged little by little with geography.

greek; travel; book; animism; critical; prose

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