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Title Pages Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest Peter Derow and Robert Parker Print publication date: 2003 Print ISBN-13: 9780199253746 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253746.001.0001 Title Pages (p.i) Herodotus and his World (p.iii) Herodotus and his World (p.iv) Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. 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D56.52.H45 H48 2003 930–dc21 2002033696 ISBN 0–19–925374–9 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Typeset by Regent Typesetting, London Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd, Guildford & King’s Lynn Page 2 of 3 Title Pages Page 3 of 3 Dedication Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest Peter Derow and Robert Parker Print publication date: 2003 Print ISBN-13: 9780199253746 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253746.001.0001 Dedication (p.ii) George Forrest drawing by Michael Gabriel Page 1 of 2 Dedication Page 2 of 2 Preface Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest Peter Derow and Robert Parker Print publication date: 2003 Print ISBN-13: 9780199253746 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253746.001.0001 (p.v) Preface This volume derives from a conference in memory of George Forrest, held over four days in July 2000. The conference took place in Wadham College, Oxford, where George Forrest was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History from 1951 to 1977 before he moved to New College and the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History, the post he held until his retirement in 1992. For financial support which made that conference possible we are very grateful to Wadham College, to New College, to the Faculty of Literae Humaniores in Oxford, and to the British Academy. For their assistance with the present volume we warmly thank Hilary O’Shea, Enid Barker, Tom Chandler, Lavinia Porter, Lucy Qureshi, Mary Lale, and especially Graham Shipley, a pupil of George Forrest, who was unable to participate in the conference but nobly volunteered to compile the index.1 We are also very grateful to Michael Gabriel, artist and longstanding friend of the Forrests, who drew the frontispiece. In planning a conference and a volume in memory of George Forrest, we were acting, as a Greek author might have said, ‘partly because our own spirits so moved us’, partly also because Angelos Matthaiou, in a touching letter to one of us, suggested such a tribute to a scholar much loved in many countries. We chose a subject central to George Forrest’s interests, and we were encouraged rather than deterred by the knowledge that Herodotean studies were in a particularly lively phase, with several important monographs and collections about to appear or in preparation. We aimed for a conference and a volume thoroughly diverse in topics, themes, approaches, and interests. Thanks to the participants, each of whom chose her or his own path, we were able to achieve this diversity, and for that reason we make no attempt to offer a summary of the papers by way of introduction. To those curious to know what the various contributors argue, an easy remedy is available. Lector, lege: laetaberis! Page 1 of 2 Preface That many talented pupils of George Forrest, and many leading (p.vi) Herodoteans, could not be included in this tribute scarcely needs to be said. The absence of current members of the Oxford sub-faculties of Ancient History and Greek and Latin Languages and Literature from the list of contributors is due not to any lack of affection on their part (or ours), but to the opposite: to include papers by all the colleagues devoted to Forrest’s memory would have swamped both conference and volume, and we resolved to exclude this whole class in limine. Two participants, Kweku Garbrah and Sir John Boardman, have not published their papers here but join in paying tribute to the honorand’s memory. Simon Hornblower observes in his paper that qualities detected by John Gould in Herodotus were also characteristic of Forrest. As it happens, John Gould and George Forrest met at school and remained throughout their lives good friends with many shared interests in Greece and its history. Gould, though gravely ill, was still able to attend the conference and give the elegant paper which appears here; he died in the autumn of 2001. The peroration to Gould’s book on Herodotus (‘Gould 1989’ in the brutalist notation adopted, alas, in this volume) sums up the qualities that drew them both to this author: The most lasting of all impressions that one takes away from a reading of his narrative is exhilaration. It comes from the sense one has of Herodotus’ inexhaustible curiosity and vitality. He responds with ever-present delight and admiration to the ‘astonishing’ variety of human achievement and invention in a world which he acknowledges as tragic; he makes you laugh, not by presenting experience as comic, but by showing it as constantly surprising and stimulating; he makes you glad to have read him by showing men responding to suffering and disaster with energy and ingenuity, resilient and undefeated. The honorand of this volume and the author of that description were, like Herodotus, men of ‘inexhaustible curiosity and vitality’, and, like his Greeks, ‘resilient and undefeated’. PSD RCTP Page 2 of 2 Dedication Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest Peter Derow and Robert Parker Print publication date: 2003 Print ISBN-13: 9780199253746 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253746.001.0001 Dedication (p.vii) We sat there and thought— (We sat there, we two)— Of George; how we wished There was something to do … And then came a sign, From a gift-bearing Greek: ‘A conference, with papers, And lasting a week, And a book, full of pictures And words that won’t bore us— THAT’S how to honour The memory of Forrest!’ So gaude, dear lector, Lege: laetaberis! We hope you will find this A tribute as fair as Page 1 of 2 Dedication Any you’ve seen. And now— Put on your specs: Look at what can be done with Herodotus’ text! Put them on now, dear reader, Your best pair of spectacles: Look at what can be done with Hermotimos’ testicles! (p.viii) Page 2 of 2 List of Figures Herodotus and his World: Essays from a Conference in Memory of George Forrest Peter Derow and Robert Parker Print publication date: 2003 Print ISBN-13: 9780199253746 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253746.001.0001 (p.xi) List of Figures Chapter 3 Fig. 1. Chios and the western seaboard of Asia Minor. 42 Chapter 10 Fig. 1. Kalos-inscription with name Deiogenes on sculpture from the N. Palace of Assurbanipal at Nineveh. 173 Fig. 2. Kalos-inscription, sketch of sculpture panel to show position of the inscription. 173 Fig. 3. Sketch of Hittite rock sculpture at Karabel near Izmir, to show Egyptian-style dress and stance. 175 Fig. 4. Sketch of Hittite hieroglyphs with name of Tudhaliya IV to show winged disk, body-part signs, and ankh-sign. 177 Fig. 5. Drawing of sculpture of Assurbanipal from the N. Palace at Nineveh showing palace garden built by Sennacherib and aqueduct as described by later Greek writers. 180 Fig. 6. Wall decoration from throne room of Nebuchadnezzar II at Babylon. 184 Fig. 7. Stone sculpture from N. Palace of Assurbanipal at Nineveh, showing beardless figure spearing lion. 185 Fig. 8. Stone sculpture from N. Palace of Assurbanipal at Nineveh showing Elamite archers. 186 Fig. 9. Stone sculpture from Persepolis showing Indian tribute-bearer. 186 Chapter 11 Fig. 1. The Southern Part of the Plain of Marathon. 191 Page 1 of 2
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