Brill's Companion to Herodotus

Cover\r......Page 1
BRILL\'S COMPANION TO HERODOTUS......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 8
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 12
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 14
LIST OF MAPS......Page 16
EDITORS\' INTRODUCTION......Page 18
HERODOTUS AND HIS WORK......Page 22
1. Egbert J . Bakker: THE MAKING OF HISTORY: HERODOTUS\' HISTORIES APODEXIS......Page 24
Interpreting the Proem......Page 27
Historie: Interrogation and Difference......Page 34
Apodexis: Proof in Context......Page 41
Recording Accomplishment......Page 44
Herodotus, Thucydides, and the Making of History......Page 49
2. John Moles: HERODOTUS AND ATHENS......Page 54
Croesus and Solon (1.5-33)......Page 56
Peisistratus\' Tyranny (1.56-64)......Page 58
The Peisistratids\' expulsion (5.55-78)......Page 59
The Alcmaeonids and Pericles (6.121—131)......Page 61
Praises of Athens......Page 63
Themistocles......Page 64
Athens at the end of the war......Page 69
Conclusions......Page 70
3. Simon R. Slings: ORAL STRATEGIES IN THE LANGUAGE OF HERODOTUS......Page 74
Speech Exemplified......Page 76
Predicate Repetition......Page 81
Chunking of One Constituent......Page 85
Participial Tails......Page 86
Chunking of Larger Segments......Page 88
Ring Composition......Page 92
Keeping Track of Discourse Topics......Page 94
Herodotus, Thucydides and the New Era of Greek Literacy......Page 100
An Old Man Takes to Writing......Page 102
Writing the Histories: Arrangement and Procedure......Page 103
The Histories and Herodotus the Oral Historian......Page 106
Legein and graphein......Page 109
Legein ta legomena......Page 111
Herodotus and \'Historicizing\' His Own Time......Page 112
The Function of the Histories......Page 114
HERODOTUS AND HIS WORLD......Page 116
Herodotus Homerikotatos?......Page 118
Herodotus Mythologos?......Page 130
6. Suzanne Saïd: HERODOTUS AND TRAGEDY......Page 138
Tragic motives in the Histories......Page 141
Polycrates......Page 145
Demaratus, Cleomenes, and Leotychides......Page 147
Cypselus and Periander......Page 148
Astyages and Cyrus......Page 149
Cambyses......Page 151
Croesus......Page 153
Herodotus\' Histories and Aeschylus\' Persians......Page 158
Conclusion......Page 167
Introduction......Page 170
Philosophical and Scientific Thought......Page 176
Historical and Political Thought......Page 185
Conclusion......Page 204
8. Jon D. Mikalson: RELIGION IN HERODOTUS......Page 208
Introduction: Leotychides and Glaucus, Croesus and Solon......Page 220
Principles of Community, Family and Sexual Morality......Page 223
Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: Reciprocity and Revenge......Page 230
Pride, hubris, aggression, and imperialism......Page 238
Introduction: the importance of women in the Histories......Page 246
Approaching the theme: fact and fiction in the Histories......Page 250
From narrative to historical agency......Page 251
From historical agency to narrative......Page 257
Conclusion......Page 262
THE HISTORIES AS NARRATIVE......Page 264
Introduction: \'harmonious body\' versus \'the work of scissors\'......Page 266
Herodotus\' unity: the arguments......Page 267
Narrative units: the terminology......Page 276
Herodotus\' unity: the means......Page 280
Narrative unity: an example......Page 284
12. Carolyn Dewald: \'I DIDN\'T GIVE MY OWN GENEALOGY\': HERODOTUS AND THE AUTHORIAL PERSONA......Page 288
Herodotus as Narrator: Managing the Logoi......Page 295
Herodotus as Histor: Representation of Data......Page 298
Problems of Definition......Page 312
Pattern and Variation......Page 320
Organization and Function......Page 323
The story of Arion 1.23—4......Page 327
The revenge of Hermotimus 8.103-7......Page 329
Xerxes and Masistes......Page 331
Artayctes and Protesilaus......Page 334
Artembares and Cyrus......Page 335
Transmission and Truth......Page 336
THE HISTORICAL METHOD......Page 340
14. Hans van Wees: HERODOTUS AND THE PAST......Page 342
Deep roots: the question of origins......Page 345
Lost empires: the rise and fall of powers......Page 349
\'From small beginnings\': the slow rise of Greek power......Page 358
\'The beginning of evils\': causes of war......Page 364
Conclusion......Page 369
15. Paul Cartledge and Emily Greenwood: HERODOTUS AS A CRITIC: TRUTH, FICTION, POLARITY......Page 372
Truth and or fiction?......Page 374
Polarity......Page 384
Greeks versus Barbarians......Page 386
Men versus Women......Page 388
Gods versus Mortals......Page 390
Envoi......Page 391
16. Simon Hornblower: HERODOTUS AND HIS SOURCES OF INFORMATION......Page 394
Introduction to the Subject......Page 408
Introduction to the Author......Page 411
Defining the Extension oj Time......Page 416
Horizons of Memory and Beyond......Page 418
Ethne and Historical Time......Page 423
Spatium Historicum, Spatium Mythicum, and the Floating Gap......Page 426
Kyklos, Process, and Contingency......Page 432
HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY......Page 434
18. Alan B. Lloyd: EGYPT......Page 436
Political and Social Structure......Page 440
The Economy......Page 450
The Egyptian Belief System......Page 451
Daily Life......Page 454
19. Stephanie West: SCYTHIANS......Page 458
20. Klaus Karttunen: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE FRINGES......Page 478
General patterns in Herodotean etiinography......Page 481
The Extremes: the Ethiopian South......Page 487
The Extremes: the Arabian Southeast......Page 489
The Extremes: the European Northwest......Page 491
The Extremes: the Scythian Northeast......Page 493
Before and after Herodotus......Page 494
Introduction......Page 496
Herodotus\' sources......Page 499
The Babylonian sources......Page 503
Historical Outline......Page 506
Babylon......Page 512
Babylonian society......Page 514
Conclusion......Page 516
The beginning and end of archaic Greek history......Page 518
The chronology of archaic Greek history......Page 521
Herodotus and the traditions of Greek history......Page 525
Herodotus\' neglect of written sources......Page 531
Herodotus and the study of archaic Greek history......Page 534
What did the history of archaic Greece contribute to Herodotus?......Page 539
Introduction......Page 542
Polycrates of Samos and the Spartans......Page 545
The Ionian Revolt......Page 549
Spartan History c. 525-499......Page 552
Athenian History 514-499......Page 554
Greek History 494-480......Page 566
Conclusion......Page 569
24. Thomas Harrison: THE PERSIAN INVASIONS......Page 572
The Persian Wars in the Histories......Page 574
The invasion narrative......Page 581
Veracity and bias......Page 592
25. Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg: THE PERSONALITY OF XERXES, KING OF KINGS......Page 600
The Sources......Page 601
Herodotus......Page 604
Xerxes and women......Page 606
Xerxes\' personality in Herodotus......Page 608
The sources from Persia......Page 609
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 612
GENERAL INDEX......Page 650
INDEX OF PASSAGES......Page 662