Interpreting Herodotus

Interpreting Herodotus / edited by Thomas Harrison and Elizabeth Irwin.

Developing the themes and ideas of Charles W. Fornara's seminal publication Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay (Oxford, 1971), this volume offers a new look at the Histories in light of the explosion of scholarship in the intervening years, focusing particularly on how we can interpret Herodotu...

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Other Authors: Harrison, Thomas, 1969- (Editor), Irwin, Elizabeth (Elizabeth K.) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Herodotus.
Fornara, Charles W. > Herodotus.
Historiography > Greece.
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Introduction / Thomas Harrison and Elizabeth Irwin
  • 2: Making Logoi: Herodotus' Book 2 and Hecataeus of Miletus / John Dillery
  • 3: The Lesson of Book 2 / Ewen Bowie
  • 4: Herodotus' Book 2 and the Unity of the Work / Reinhold Bichler
  • 5: Dogs That Do Not (Always) Bark: Herodotus on Persian Egypt / Christopher Tuplin
  • 6: Herodotus and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern Motifs: Darius I, Oebares, and the Neighing Horse / Robert Rollinger
  • 7: Gifts for Cyrus, Tribute for Darius / Kai Ruffing
  • 8: Surveying Greatness and Magnitude in Herodotus / Emily Greenwood
  • 9: Herodotus and his World / Joseph E. Skinner
  • 10: The Dynamics of Time: Herodotus' Histories and Contemporary Athens Before and After Fornara / Jonas Grethlein
  • 11: Herodotus' Allusions to the Sparta of his Day / Wolfgang Blösel
  • 12: Herodotus and Democracy / P. J. Rhodes
  • 13: The End of the Histories and the End of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars / Elizabeth Irwin
  • 14: The Moral of History / Thomas Harrison.

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