Interpreting Herodotus

Thomas Harrison is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, where his research interests include Herodotus, the Achaemenid Persian empire, the Greek relationship with the non-Greek world, and the reception of these themes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship. His publications include Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus (Oxford, 2000), The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the History of the Fifth Century (London, 2000), and Writing Ancient Persia (London, 2011), as well as the edited volumes Polybius and his World: Essays in Memory of F. W. Walbank (Oxford, 2013; with Bruce Gibson) and Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, forthcoming; with Joseph Skinner). He is currently working on a study of the role of belief in Greek religion. Elizabeth Irwin is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the author of Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation (Cambridge, 2005) and the co-editor of two volumes on Herodotus: Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories (Cambridge, 2007; with Emily Greenwood) and Herodots Wege des Erzählens (Frankfurt am Main, 2013; with Klaus Geus and Thomas Poiss); she has also written numerous articles on Herodotus and Thucydides and is currently finishing a book on the relationship of Herodotus' Histories to the Atheno-Peloponnesian War and to Thucydides' account of it. Her current research is centred on medical discourse and ethical debates of the later fifth century, political and historical readings of Greek lyric and Athenian drama, Prodicus, Plato, and the reception of Athenian arche in Greek imperial literature.

Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations and Conventions
List of Contributors
1: Thomas Harrison and Elizabeth Irwin: Introduction
2: John Dillery: Making Logoi: Herodotus' Book 2 and Hecataeus of Miletus
3: Ewen Bowie: The Lesson of Book 2
4: Reinhold Bichler: Herodotus' Book 2 and the Unity of the Work
5: Christopher Tuplin: Dogs That Do Not (Always) Bark: Herodotus on Persian Egypt
6: Robert Rollinger: Herodotus and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern Motifs: Darius I, Oebares, and the Neighing Horse
7: Kai Ruffing: Gifts for Cyrus, Tribute for Darius
8: Emily Greenwood: Surveying Greatness and Magnitude in Herodotus
9: Joseph E. Skinner: Herodotus and his World
10: Jonas Grethlein: The Dynamics of Time: Herodotus' Histories and Contemporary Athens Before and After Fornara
11: Wolfgang Blösel: Herodotus' Allusions to the Sparta of his Day
12: P. J. Rhodes: Herodotus and Democracy
13: Elizabeth Irwin: The End of the Histories and the End of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars
14: Thomas Harrison: The Moral of History
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index