Reading Herodotus

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-521-87630-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Reading Herodotus represents a new departure in Herodotean scholarship: it is the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely-related lines of enquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and the overarching structure of Herodotus' narrative. This collection of twelve essays by internationally-renowned scholars represents an important contribution to existing scholarship on Herodotus and will serve as an essential research tool for all those interested in Book 5 of the Histories, the interpretation of Herodotean narrative, and the historiography of the Ionian Revolt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irwin, Elizabeth

Greenwood, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Elizabeth Irwin and Emily Greenwood; 1. 'What's in a name?' and exploring the comparable: onomastics, ethnography and kratos in Thrace (5.1-2 and 3-10) Elizabeth Irwin; 2. The Paeonians: 5.11-17 Robin Osborne; 3. Narrating ambiguity: murder and Macedonian alliances: 5.17-22 David Fearn; 4. Bridging the narrative: 5.23-7 Emily Greenwood; 5. The trouble with the Ionians: Herodotus and the beginning of the Ionian Revolt (5.28-38.1) Rosaria Munson; 6. The Dorieus episode and the Ionian Revolt: 5.42-8 Simon Hornblower; 7. Aristagoras: 5.49-55.97 Christopher Pelling; 8. Structure and significance: 5.55-69 Vivienne Gray; 9. Athens and Aegina: 5.82-9 Johannes Haubold; 10. 'Saving' Greece from the 'ignominy' of tyranny? The 'famous' and 'wonderful' speech of Socles John Moles; 11. Cyprus and Onesilus: an interlude of freedom (5.104, 108-16) Anastasia Serghidou; 12. The Fourth Dorian Invasion and the Ionian Revolt (5.76-126) John Henderson.

Über Autor(innen)

Irwin, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Irwin is Assistant Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the author of Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation (2005).

Greenwood, Emily
Emily Greenwood is Lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Thucydides and the Shaping of History (2006) and co-editor, with Barbara Graziosi, of Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (2007).