Herodotus and his World : Essays from a Conference in Menory of George Forrest

by: Derow, P. Parker, R.

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Stunning in range and diversity, this collection of lively essays by an international team of experts illuminates Herodotus and the world in which he wrote. The novel and enlightening contributions are as varied in focus and approach as the interests and backgrounds of the authors. There are detailed studies of a number of individual passages and episodes (which always turn out to have wider ramifications for the understanding of Herodotus or for the history of the archaic and classical Greek world, or both) as well as considerations of wider themes (perceptions of ethnicity and ideas of 'tradition', of historical space and about the origins of history). There is prophecy, oracle-selling, and resurrection. There is narrative management and the prosaics of death. Herodotean chronology is revisited. There is epigraphy. There are accounts of why Herodotus did not mention the Hanging Gardens and why he has not been taken as seriously as he should have been by military historians. There are Cleisthenes and Cleomenes, there are Argos and Corinth. And, of course, there is Athens and its democracy. In addition to presenting a picture of Herodotean studies today the volume offers plenty to stimulate further enquiry. It is also an important reminder of the enduring insights and legacies of the work of George Forrest.

Authorial voice and narrative management in Herodotus / Roger Brock
Pedestrian fatalities: the prosaics of death in Herodotus / Deborah Boedeker
Panionios of Chios and Hermotimos of Pedasa (Hdt. 8. 104-6) / Simon Hornblower
Herodotean chronology revisited / P.J. Rhodes
Who was actually buried in the first of the three Spartan tombs (Hdt. 9. 85. 1)? Textual and historical problems / Dwora Gilula
The oldest 'new' military historians: Herodotos, W.G. Forrest, and the historiography of war / Eugenia C. Kiesling
Herodotos (and others) on Pelasgians: some perceptions of ethnicity / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood. Herodotus' conception of historical space and the beginnings of universal history / José-Miguel Alonso-Núñez
'Tradition' in Herodotus: the foundation of Cyrene / Irad Malkin
Why did Herodotus not mention the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? / Stephanie Dalley
[Greek phrase](Hdt. 6. 108. 1) / Angelos P. Matthaiou
Herodotos (8. 137-8), the manumissions from Leukopetra, and the topography of the middle Haliakmon Valley / Miltiades Hatzopoulos
Cleisthenes (of Athens) and Corinth / John Salmon
'Prophecy in reverse'? Herodotus and the origins of history / Thomas Harrison. Oracles for sale / Hugh Bowden
The common oracle of the Milesians and the Argives (Hdt. 6 .19 and 77) / Marcel Piérart
Herodotus and the 'resurrection' / John Gould
Herodotos and Athens / Robert Fowler
Democracy without theory / John Davies

Subjects:
Conference papers and proceedings
Essais
Essay
Essays
Forrest, George, classicist Anniversaries, etc
Greece
Herodotus
Herodotus ca. 485 v. Chr.-424 v. Chr
Herodotus. Congresses
Hérodote. Congrès
Histoire ancienne Historiographie Congrès
Historiae (Herodotus)
Historiographie Grèce Congrès
Historiography
Historiography Greece Congresses
History (Herodotus)
History, Ancient Historiography
History, Ancient Historiography Congresses
Kongress
Kongress Oxford 2000
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Herodotus and his World : Essays from a Conference in Menory of George Forrest

by: Derow, P. Parker, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780199253746 / 978-0-19-925374-6
• ISBN-03: 0199253749 / 0-19-925374-9
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003

Price: 149,00 EURO

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