Herodotus and his world : essays from a conference in memory of George Forrest /

This collection of essays illuminates Herodotus and the world in which he wrote. In addition to presenting a picture of Herodotean studies today, this volume provides a reminder of the insights and legacies of the work of George Forrest.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Derow, Peter, Parker, Robert, 1950-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series:	Oxford scholarship online. Oxford scholarship online. Classical Studies module.
Subjects:	Herodotus. > History > Congresses. Hérodote. > Histoires > Congrès. History (Herodotus) Herodotus > ca. 485 v. Chr.-424 v. Chr. Herodotus. History, Ancient > Historiography > Congresses. Historiography > Greece > Congresses. Histoire ancienne > Historiographie > Congrès. Historiographie > Grèce > Congrès. Historiography. History, Ancient > Historiography. Greece. Kongress Historiae (Herodotus) Electronic books. Essay Kongress > Oxford > 2000. essays. Essays. Conference papers and proceedings. Essais.
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Table of Contents:

Part I. Narrative
1. Authorial voice and narrative management in Herodotus / Roger Brock
2. Pedestrian fatalities : the prosaics of death in Herodotus / Deborah Boedeker
3. Panionios of Chios and Hermotimos of Pedasa (Hdt. 8. 104-6) / Simon Hornblower
4. Herodotean chronology revisited / P.J. Rhodes
5. Who was actually buried in the first of the three Spartan Tombs (Hdt. 9. 85. 1)? : textual and historical problems / Dwora Gilula
6. The oldest 'new' military historians : Herodotos, W.G. Forrest, and the historiography of war / Eugenia C. Kiesling
Part II. People and Places
7. Herodotos (and others) on Pelasgians : some Perceptions of ethnicity / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
8. Herodotus' conception of historical space and the beginnings of universal history / Jose-Miguel Alonso-Nunez
9. 'Tradition' in Herodotus : the foundation of Cyrene / Irad Malkin. 10. Why did Herodotus not mention the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? / Stephanie Dalley
11. [Athenaioisi] [tetagmenoisi] [en] [temenei] [Erakleos] (Hdt. 6. 108. 1) / Angelos P. Matthaiou
12. Herodotos (8. 137-8), the Manumissions from Leukopetra, and the topography of the middle Haliakmon Valley / Miltiades Hatzopoulos
13. Cleisthenes (of Athens) and Corinth / John Salmon
Part III. Religion
14. Prophecy in reverse? : Herodotus and the origins of history / Thomas Harrison
15. Oracles for sale / Hugh Bowden
16. The common oracle of the Milesians and the Argives (Hdt. 6.19 and 77) / Marcel Pierart
17. Herodotus and the 'Resurrection' / John Gould
Part IV. Herodotus and Athens
18. Herodotos and Athens / Robert Fowler
19. Democracy without theory / John Davies
Indexes / Graham Shipley
Select epigraphic index.