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Brill's Companion to Herodotus Edited by Egbert J. Bakker, Irene J.F. de Jong and Hans van Wees EDITED BY EGBERT J. BARKER IRENE J.F. DE JONG HANS VAN WEES BRILL LEIDEN · BOSTON · KÖLN 2002 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 90 04 12060 2 © Copyright 2002 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill Academic Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS In memory of David Asheri and Heleen Sancisi CONTENTS List of Abbreviations X1 List of Contributors x111 List of Maps xv Editors' Introduction *vii Egbert J. Bakker, Irene J. F. de Jong, Hans van Wees HERODOTUS AND HIS WORK 1. The Making of History: Herodotus' Histories Apodexis 3 Egbert J. Bakker 2. Herodotus and Athens 33 John Moles 3. Oral Strategies in the Language of Herodotus 53 Simon R. Slings 4. The Histories and Writing 79 Wolfgang Rosier HERODOTUS AND HIS WORLD 5. Epic Heritage and Mythical Patterns in Herodotus 97 Deborah Boedeker 6. Herodotus and Tragedy 117 Suzanne Said 7. Philosophy, Science, Politics: Herodotus and the Intellectual Trends of his Time 149 Kurt A. Raqflaub viii CONTENTS 8. Religion in Herodotus 187 Jon D. Mikahon 9. Popular Morality in Herodotus 199 Nick Fisher 10. Women in Herodotus' Histories 225 Josine Bloh THE HISTORIES AS NARRATIVE 11. Narrative Unity and Units 245 Irene J. F. de Jong 12. '1 didn't give my own genealogy': Herodotus and the authorial persona 267 Carolyn Dewald 13. Short Stories in Herodotus' Histories 291 Vivienne Gray THE HISTORICAL METHOD 14. Herodotus and the Past 321 Hans van Wees 15. Herodotus as a Critic: Truth, Fiction, Polarity 351 Paul Cartledge and Emily Greenwood 16. Herodotus and his Sources of Information 373 Simon Homblower 17. The Organization of Time in the Histories 387 Justus Cobet CONTENTS I* HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY 18. Egypt 4 15 Alan B. Lloyd 19. Scythians 437 Stephanie West 20. The Ethnography of the Fringes 457 Klaus Karttunen 21. Babylon 475 Amélie Kulut 22. Archaic Greek History 497 Robin Osborne 23. Greek History, c. 525 480 BC 521 Sara Forsdyke 24. The Persian Invasions 551 Viomas Hanison 25. The Personality of Xerxes, King of Kings 579 Heleen Sanaa- Weerdenburg Bibliography 591 General Index 629 Index of Passages 641
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