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TheCambridgeCompaniontoHerodotus Herodotus’Historiesisthefirstmajorsurvivingproseworkfromantiquity.Its rangeofinterestsisimmense,coveringthewholeoftheknownworldandmuch beyond,anditculminatesinadetailedaccountofthePersianWarsoftheearly fifth century BCE. Moreover, recent research has shown that Herodotus is a sophisticatedandattimesevenironicnarrator,andapioneerandseriousprac- titionerofhistoricalresearchatatimewhentheGreeks’traditionsabouttheir pastwerestillthefluidtransmissionsandmemoriesofalargelyoralsociety. ThisCompanionprovidesaseriesofup-to-dateandaccessiblechapters,writ- tenbydistinguishedscholars,illuminatingmanyaspectsofHerodotus’work: hisskillinlanguageandhisnarrativeart;hisintellectualpreconceptions;his working methods and techniques; his attitude towards nature and the gods; hisattitudetowardsforeignculturesandpeoples;andhisviewofhumanlife andhumanhistory. Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO HERODOTUS EDITED BY CAROLYN DEWALD ProfessorofClassicsandHistory,BardCollege and JOHN MARINCOLA ProfessorofClassics,FloridaStateUniversity Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb22ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521536837 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2006 Thisbookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 CONTENTS Listofmaps page viii Notesoncontributors ix Preface xiii Listofabbreviations xv Maps xvi Introduction 1 carolyn dewald and john marincola 1 Herodotusandthepoetryofthepast 13 john marincola 2 Herodotusandhisprosepredecessors 29 robert fowler 3 Herodotusandtragedy 46 jasper griffin 4 TheintellectualmilieuofHerodotus 60 rosalind thomas 5 Meta-historie¯:MethodandgenreintheHistories 76 nino luraghi 6 Thesyntaxofhistorie¯:HowHerodotuswrites 92 egbert bakker 7 SpeechandnarrativeintheHistories 103 christopher pelling v Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 contents 8 Herodotus,Sophoclesandthewomanwhowanted herbrothersaved 122 carolyn dewald and rachel kitzinger 9 StoriesandstorytellingintheHistories 130 alan griffiths 10 HumouranddangerinHerodotus 145 carolyn dewald 11 LocationanddislocationinHerodotus 165 rachel friedman 12 Herodotusandthenaturalworld 178 james romm 13 HerodotusandGreekreligion 192 scott scullion 14 WarfareinHerodotus 209 lawrence tritle 15 Herodotus,politicalhistoryandpoliticalthought 224 sara forsdyke 16 HerodotusandthecitiesofmainlandGreece 242 philip stadter 17 Analternateworld:HerodotusandItaly 257 rosaria vignolo munson 18 HerodotusandPersia 274 michael flower 19 Herodotusandforeignlands 290 tim rood 20 Herodotus’influenceinantiquity 306 simon hornblower vi Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 contents Glossary 319 Timeline 320 Bibliography 324 Indexofpassages 347 Index 365 vii Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 MAPS 1. CentralGreeceandthePeloponnese pagexvi 2. Anatolia xvii 3. TheAchaemenidEmpire xviii 4. GreeceandtheAegean(withrouteofXerxes’invasion) xx 5. SouthernItalyandSicily xxii viii Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS egbert j. bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University. His pub- lications include Linguistics and Formulas in Homer (1988) and Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (1997). He is co-editor of Brill’s CompaniontoHerodotus(2002). carolyn dewald taught for many years at the University of Southern California,andisnowProfessorofHistoryandClassicsatBardCollege.She haswrittenextensivelyonHerodotus,includingtheIntroductionandNotes totheOxfordWorld’sClassicstranslationofHerodotus(1998).Herlatest publicationisThucydides’WarNarrative:AStructuralStudy(2006).Sheis currentlyco-editing(withRosariaMunson)acommentaryonHerodotus1 fortheCambridgeGreekandLatinClassicsseries. michael a. flowerisaLecturerintheDepartmentofClassicsatPrince- tonUniversity.InadditiontoarticlesonGreekhistoryandhistoriography,he istheauthorofTheopompusofChios.HistoryandRhetoricintheFourth Century B.C. (1994) and (with John Marincola) of Herodotus, Histories, Book IX (2002). His current project is a book on the role of the seer in archaicandclassicalGreece. sara forsdyke isAssistantProfessorofGreekandLatinintheDepart- ment of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. Her publications include a number of articles on Herodotus and Greek political ideology, as wellasabook,Exile,OstracismandDemocracy:ThePoliticsofExpulsion inAncientGreece(2005). robert l. fowler isH.O.WillsProfessorofGreekintheUniversityof Bristol.HeisauthorofTheNatureofEarlyGreekLyric:ThreePreliminary Studies(1987),EarlyGreekMythographyI:TextandIntroduction(2000), andarticlesonearlyGreekpoetryandproseandthehistoryofscholarship. HeispreparingEarlyGreekMythographyII:Commentary,andhasedited theCambridgeCompaniontoHomer(2004). ix Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006
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