Reading Herodotus : a study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories / edited by Elizabeth Irwin and Emily Greenwood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Irwin, Elizabeth (Elizabeth K.)

Greenwood, Emily.

University of Cambridge. Faculty of Classics.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herodotus. History--Book 5--Congresses.

Herodotus.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 343 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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 covers a separate logos in Book 5 and proposes an original thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in this section of the narrative. In addition, each chapter analyzes 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.

Contents:

Introduction: reading Herodotus, reading Book 5 / Elizabeth Irwin, Emily Greenwood 1

1 'What's in a name?' and exploring the comparable: onomastics, ethnography and kratos in Thrace (5.1-2 and 3-10) / Elizabeth Irwin 41

2 The Paeonians (5.11-16) / Robin Osborne 88

3 Narrating ambiguity: murder and Macedonian allegiance (5.17-22) / David Fearn 98

4 Bridging the narrative (5.23-7) / Emily Greenwood 128

5 The trouble with the Ionians: Herodotus and the beginning of the Ionian Revolt (5.28-38.1) / Rosaria Vignolo Munson 146

6 The Dorieus episode and the Ionian Revolt (5.42-8) / Simon Hornblower 168

7 Aristagoras (5.49-55, 97) / Christopher Pelling 179

8 Structure and significance (5.55-69) / Vivienne Gray 202

9 Athens and Aegina (5.82-9) / Johannes Haubold 226

10 'Saving' Greece from the 'ignominy' of tyranny? The 'famous' and 'wonderful' speech of Socles (5.92) / John Moles 245

11 Cyprus and Onesilus: an interlude of freedom (5.104, 108-16) / Anastasia Serghidou 269

12 'The Fourth Dorian Invasion' and 'The Ionian Revolt' (5.76-126) / John Henderson 289.

Notes:

Papers based on a colloquium held July 2002 at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780521876308

0521876303

OCLC:

144225239