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Herodotea
Studies on the Text of Herodotus
N. G. WILSON
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Preface
With this volume I con tinue a prac tice that ori gin ated in 1990, when
Sir Hugh Lloyd- Jones and I decided that our edi tion of Sophocles for
the Oxford Classical Texts series would be more usef ul if accom-
pan ied by a monog raph deal ing with the many pass ages which pose
dif culties for an editor. Our decision was prompt ed by the cons ide r-
a tion that even a much larg er appar atus crit i cus than is perm it ted in
the series would not provide the space needed for an explana tion of
our decisions. In 2007 my Aristophanea was designed to serve the
same pur pose, as was S. J. Heyworth’s Cynthia to accom pany his text
of Propertius. In the case of the present volume I am once again
greatly indebted to Dr Leofranc Holford-S trevens, whose learni ng
and acu men have enabled me to improve the orig inal draft at many
points.
In an intro duct ory chapter the reader will find inform a tion about
the trans mis sion of the text which goes bey ond the bare essen tials
out lined in the pre face to the edi tion. Once again I have aimed at a
treat ment which might be appro pri ate in a ref er ence work sim ilar to
L. D. Reynolds’s Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics
(Oxford, 1983). In the main part of the book the dis cus sion is devoted
prin cip ally to pas sages which in the past have raised ques tions in the
mind of edit ors, but I have added a num ber of oth ers which seemed to
need atten tion. Since this is not a book likely to be read through
con tinu ously but will more prob ably be con sul ted for inform a tion
about indi vidual pas sages, I have occa sion ally thought it sens ible to
repeat an explan a tion or a state ment of prin ciple rather than give
cross- ref er ences. Most of my notes deal with mat ters of lan guage and
style, with the aim of get ting as close as pos sible to the ori ginal
word ing and help ing to ensure that it can be accur ately trans lated;
com par ison of trans la tions cur rently in cir cu la tion reveals in cer tain
pas sages a greater diversity than should be expec ted. There are,
how ever, a num ber of pas sages where tex tual uncer tainty has a bear ing
on his tor ical ques tions.
Herodotus is often reckoned to be an easy author, suita ble for
rel at ive begin ners, but the num ber of notes I have felt impelled to
write is evid ence that this view is too optimi stic. In addi tion to my
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own cont rib ut ions I fre quently refer to the notes made by Paul Maas
in his copy of Hude’s edit ion, which I was fort u nate enough to acquire
from the lib rary of the late George Forrest, thanks to Mrs Margaret
Forrest; they are now publ ished in ZPE 179 (2011), 57–70. There are
also a few ref er ences to Maas’s cor res pond ence with Enoch Powell,
pres erved in the Powell Archive at Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Contents
Abbreviations ix
Introduction xi
Book I 1
Book II 25
Book III 47
Book IV 71
Book V 93
Book VI 109
Book VII 123
Book VIII 155
Book IX 175
Herodotea Addenda 197
Appendix 199
Index 201
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Abbreviations
Most abbre vi ations will be eas ily under stood. Scholars who
pro duced com plete edi tions are gen er ally referred to by name only;
edit ors of single books sim il arly referred to are:
I J. H. Sleeman (Cambridge, 1909)
II W. G. Waddell (London, 1939)
A. B. Lloyd (Leiden, 1975–88)
IV–VI, VII–IX R. W. Macan (London, 1895, 1908)
IV, V, VI, IX E. S. Shuckburgh (Cambridge, 1906, 1890,
1889, 1893)
V, VI G. Nenci (Rome, 1994, 1998)
VI L. Scott (Leiden, 2005)
VIII, IX A. Masaracchia (Rome, 1977, 1978)
VIII, IX D. Asheri et al. (Rome, 2003, 2006).
VIII J. E. Powell (Cambridge, 1939)
A. M. Bowie (Cambridge, 2007)
IX M. A. Flower and J. Marincola (Cambridge,
2002)
Other works referred to in abbre via ted form:
Asheri D. Asheri et al., A Commentary on Herodotus
Books I–IV (Oxford, 2007)
Bechtel F. Bechtel, Die griech is chen Dialekte (Berlin,
1921–4)
Blaydes F. H. M. Blaydes, Adversaria in Herodotum
(Halle, 1901)
Chandler H. W. Chandler, A Practical Introduction to
Greek Accentuation, 2nd edn. (Oxford, 1881)
Cooper–Krüger G. L. Cooper III and K. W. Krüger, Early
Greek Poetic and Herodotean Syntax (Ann
Arbor, 2002)
Denniston J. D. Denniston, The Greek Particles, 2nd
edn. (Oxford, 1954)
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