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Title Herodotus and his world : essays from a conference in memory of George Forrest / edited by Peter Derow and Robert Parker
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 376 pages)
Series Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Classical Studies module
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-366) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Herodotus. History -- Congresses
SUBJECT Herodotus ca. 485 v. Chr.-424 v. Chr. gnd
Herodotus. swd
History (Herodotus) fast (OCoLC)fst01356346
Subject History, Ancient -- Historiography -- Congresses
Historiography -- Greece -- Congresses
Historiography.
History, Ancient -- Historiography.
Kongress
Historiae (Herodotus)
Greece.
Genre/Form essays.
Essays.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Derow, Peter
Parker, Robert, 1950-
LC no. 2002033696
ISBN 9780191719745
0191719749