The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus

369 Pages·2006·5.874 MB·English

by  Carolyn Dewald, John Marincola

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.
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THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO
HERODOTUS
EDITED BY
CAROLYN DEWALD
ProfessorofClassicsandHistory,BardCollege
and
JOHN MARINCOLA
ProfessorofClassics,FloridaStateUniversity
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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
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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
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Glossary 319
Timeline 320
Bibliography 324
Indexofpassages 347
Index 365
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MAPS
1. CentralGreeceandthePeloponnese pagexvi
2. Anatolia xvii
3. TheAchaemenidEmpire xviii
4. GreeceandtheAegean(withrouteofXerxes’invasion) xx
5. SouthernItalyandSicily xxii
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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).
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