Addresses the reception of Herodotus during antiquity and beyond.Considers the historical and cultural contexts within which Herodotus wrote and lived.

Provides discussions of the history of Herodotean studies and scholarship.Offers entries for every proper name, group, and region mentioned in Herodotus' Histories.Many entries also explore the text's scholarship and reception from antiquity up to the present day. Featuring contributions from an international team of more than 150 scholars, it offers more than 2,500 entries which cover the individuals, peoples, and places Herodotus names in his Histories the composition and central themes in his work and the historical, social, intellectual, and literary context of the period. Spanning three volumes, The Herodotus Encyclopedia surveys the current state of knowledge and understanding of Herodotus’ work, and discusses past, current, and emerging approaches to the text. Topics include the debt of Greek historical writing to epic poetry (and other genres) narratological analysis of the text Herodotus' position vis-à-vis his predecessors and contemporaries his use of sources his notion of Greekness and the growing body of Persian and other Near Eastern evidence for sixth- and fifth century events. The first work of its kind, this book offers students and faculty of all levels an easy-to-use, up-to-date reference tool on Herodotus of Halicarnassus (the 'Father of History') and provides Herodotean scholars with a collection of important strands of recent work. Issues related to the Persian Wars and aspects of Herodotus' work.Provides a comprehensive gateway to Herodotus' Histories, the story they tell, and the world in which they were written (four new) that consider Herodotus' place in historiography and John Stuart Mills, and Thomas Babington Macaulay, and modern assessments Also included areĬommentaries: early modern interpretations of the text by Issac Taylor, Places' attributed to the School of Hippocrates and contrastingĪccounts by Diodorus and Strabo of the Amazons. Plutarch, and a new selection from the tract 'Air, Waters, Note on the Persian Wars, and seven new maps in this edition, along withīackground texts by Aeschylus, Bacchylides, Thucydides, Aristotle, and The text is accompanied by an introduction, chronology, a Herodotus, the first continuous prose narrative that exists in Western of New York GraduateĬenter) present an annotated translation of the Greek history by History, City College of New York and City U. Norton critical editions in the history of ideasīlanco (English, City U.

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