Herodotus and His World Essays from a

Stunning in range and diversity, this collection of lively new essays by an international team of experts illuminates Herodotus and the world in which he wrote. In addition to presenting a picture of Herodotean studies today the volume offers plenty to stimulate further enquiry. It also provides an important reminder of the enduring insights and legacies of the work of George Forrest.

Peter Derow is Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Wadham College, Oxford. Robert Parker is Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford and Fellow of New College.

List of Figures

xi

List of Contributors

xii

Part I. Narrative

Authorial Voice and Narrative Management in Herodotus

3

(14)

Roger Brock

Pedestrian Fatalities: the Prosaics of Death in Herodotus

17

(20)

Deborah Boedeker

Panionios of Chios and Hermotimos of Pedasa (Hdt. 8. 104--6]

37

(21)

Simon Hornblower

Herodotean Chronology Revisited

58

(15)

P. J. Rhodes

Who Was Actually Buried in the First of the Three Spartan Tombs (Hdt. 9. 85. I]? Textual and Historical Problems

73

(15)

Dwora Gilula

The Oldest `New' Military Historians: Herodotos, W. G. Forrest, and the Historiography of War

88

(15)

Eugenia C. Kiesling

Part II. Peoples and Places

Herodotos (and others) on Pelasgians: Some Perceptions of Ethnicity

103

(42)

Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood

Herodotus' Conception of Historical Space and the Beginnings of Universal History

145

(8)

Jose-Miguel Alonso-Nunez

`Tradition' in Herodotus: The Foundation of Cyrene

153

(18)

Irad Malkin

Why Did Herodotus not Mention the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

171

(19)

Stephanie Dalley

'Aθηναιoισι τεταγμενoισι εν τεμενει `Hρακλεoσ (Hdt. 6. 108. I)

190

(13)

Angelos P. Matthaiou

Herodotos (8. 137--8), the Manumissions from Leukopetra, and the Topography of the Middle Haliakmon Valley

203

(16)

Miltiades Hatzopoulos

Cleisthenes (of Athens) and Corinth

219

(18)

John Salmon

Part III. Religion

`Prophecy in Reverse'? Herodotus and the Origins of History

237

(19)

Thomas Harrison

Oracles for Sale

256

(19)

Hugh Bowden

The Common Oracle of the Milesians and the Argives (Hdt. 6 .19 and 77)

275

(22)

Marcel Pierart

Herodotus and the `Resurrection'

297

(8)

John Gould

Part IV. Herodotus and Athens

Herodotos and Athens

305

(14)

Robert Fowler

Democracy without Theory

319

(18)

John Davies

Bibliography

337

(41)

Indexes

Graham Shipley

General Index

367

(10)

Select Index of Literary Sources

377

(1)

Select Epigraphic Index

378

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