{"product_id":"reading-herodotus-9781421406558","title":"Reading Herodotus","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once academic and cheeky, the experience of this book is like reading Herodotus while simultaneously consulting a history of Greece and a scholarly commentary on the text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eTimeline\u003cbr\u003eMaps\u003cbr\u003eAttica and Boeotia\u003cbr\u003eGreece\u003cbr\u003eAsia Minor and the Aegean\u003cbr\u003eAsia and the Mediterranean\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. How to Destroy a Mighty Empire: The Story of Croesus of Lydia\u003cbr\u003eGyges and Candaules\u003cbr\u003eThe Historicity of The History\u003cbr\u003eThe Wisdom of Solon\u003cbr\u003eThe Misfortunes of Adrastus\u003cbr\u003eConsulting the Oracles\u003cbr\u003eAthens and Sparta\u003cbr\u003eThe Capture of Sardis\u003cbr\u003eThe Wisdom of Croesus\u003cbr\u003eTorture and Prostitution\u003cbr\u003e2. Cannibals and Conquests: The Story of Cyrus the Great\u003cbr\u003eThe Birth and Exposure of Cyrus\u003cbr\u003eThe Recognition of Cyrus\u003cbr\u003eHarpagus' Revenge\u003cbr\u003eVomit and Pederasty\u003cbr\u003eThe Persian Conquest of the Asiatic Greeks and the Revolt of Lydia\u003cbr\u003eCrossing the Gyndes River\u003cbr\u003eSex and the City of Babylon\u003cbr\u003eCyrus' Campaign against the Massagetae\u003cbr\u003eIs He Soup Yet?\u003cbr\u003e3. Horny Goats and Medicinal Urine: The Egyptian Logos\u003cbr\u003eHerodotus' Methodology\u003cbr\u003eEgyptians Do It Backward\u003cbr\u003ePigs, Goats, and Satanism\u003cbr\u003eBring in Your Dead\u003cbr\u003ePsammetichus and the Antiquity of Egypt\u003cbr\u003eThe Vengeance of Nitocris\u003cbr\u003eUrinating for the Blind\u003cbr\u003eHelen in Egypt\u003cbr\u003eRhampsinitus and the Wily Thief\u003cbr\u003eAmasis, the Flatulent Revolutionary\u003cbr\u003e4. Madness and Mummies: The Reign of Cambyses\u003cbr\u003eEye Doctors and Other Casus Belli\u003cbr\u003eThick-Skulled Egyptians\u003cbr\u003eThe End of Psammenitus\u003cbr\u003eMummy Whacking\u003cbr\u003eThe Ethiopian Logos\u003cbr\u003eCambyses and the Apis Bull\u003cbr\u003eThe Smerdis Affair, Part I: Prexaspes' Secret Mission\u003cbr\u003eLettuce, Puppies, and Sororicide\u003cbr\u003eTrial by Fire: Cambyses and Prexaspes' Son\u003cbr\u003eCroesus: The Final Act\u003cbr\u003eCambyses' Madness and Cultural Relativism\u003cbr\u003eThe Smerdis Affair, Part II: I'm Not Dead Yet\u003cbr\u003eCambyses: The Final Act\u003cbr\u003e5. Meanwhile, Elsewhere in the Mediterranean: The Stories of Polycrates and Periander\u003cbr\u003ePolycrates and the Ring\u003cbr\u003eThe Siege of Samos\u003cbr\u003eThe Crucifixion of Polycrates\u003cbr\u003ePeriander's Dynastic Troubles\u003cbr\u003eArion and the Dolphin\u003cbr\u003e6. Earless Imposters and Randy Mounts: The Early Reign of Darius the Great\u003cbr\u003eThe Smerdis Affair, Part III: The False Smerdis Revealed\u003cbr\u003eThe Conspiracy of the Seven and the Fate of Prexaspes\u003cbr\u003eWas the False Smerdis Really False?\u003cbr\u003eThe Constitutional Debate\u003cbr\u003eThe Neights Have It\u003cbr\u003eCannibals, Flying Snakes, and Gold-Digging Ants: The State of the Empire\u003cbr\u003eIntaphernes and His Wife\u003cbr\u003eDemocedes of Croton\u003cbr\u003eFashion and the Fall of Samos\u003cbr\u003eThe Babylonian Revolt\u003cbr\u003e7. The Trouble with Nomads: Darius' Scythian Campaign\u003cbr\u003eGolden Flasks and Serpentine Seductresses: The Origins of Scythia\u003cbr\u003eGilded Skulls and Merry-Go-Rounds: Scary Scythian Customs\u003cbr\u003eCrossing the Bosporus\u003cbr\u003eChasing the Scythians\u003cbr\u003eThe Persian Withdrawal from Scythia\u003cbr\u003e8. Stuttering Kings and Lousy Deaths: The Libyan Logos\u003cbr\u003eThe Colonization of Libya\u003cbr\u003eArcesilaus III and Pheretime\u003cbr\u003eSevered Breasts and Wormy Deaths\u003cbr\u003eThe Persian Expedition to Libya\u003cbr\u003e9. Tattooed Slaves and Ousted Tyrants: The Ionian Revolt and Post-Pisistratid Athens\u003cbr\u003eMegabazus and Macedon and Murder\u003cbr\u003eAristagoras and the Failed Expedition to Naxos\u003cbr\u003eThe Ionian Revolt, Part I: Histiaeus and Aristagoras\u003cbr\u003eAristagoras Visits Sparta\u003cbr\u003eThe Expulsion of the Pisistratids from Athens\u003cbr\u003eCleisthenes and Isagoras\u003cbr\u003eThe Further Intrigues of Hippias\u003cbr\u003eThe Ionian Revolt, Part II: Athens and the Burning of Sardis\u003cbr\u003eThe Ionian Revolt, Part III: The Battle of Lade and the Fall of Miletus\u003cbr\u003eThe Further Adventures and Complicity of Histiaeus\u003cbr\u003e10. Miltiades, Madness, and Marathon: The First Persian War\u003cbr\u003eMiltiades in the Chersonese\u003cbr\u003eThe Expedition of Mardonius\u003cbr\u003eThe Persian Heralds of 491\u003cbr\u003eThe Deposition of Demaratus\u003cbr\u003eThe Madness of Cleomenes\u003cbr\u003eThe Persian Advance: Naxos and Eretria\u003cbr\u003eMarathon, Part I: Premonitions and Other Preliminaries\u003cbr\u003eMarathon, Part II: The Long Wait\u003cbr\u003eMarathon, Part III: The Battle\u003cbr\u003eThe Shield Signal and the Alcmaeonidae\u003cbr\u003eMiltiades' Expedition to Paros\u003cbr\u003e11. Feats of Engineering and Doomed Valor: The Second Persian War to the Battle of Thermopylae\u003cbr\u003eThe Succession of Xerxes\u003cbr\u003eThe Suppression of Egypt and the Persian Council of War\u003cbr\u003eThe Dreams of Xerxes\u003cbr\u003eThe Canal at Athos and the Bridging of the Hellespont\u003cbr\u003eEclipses and Corpses: Leaving Sardis\u003cbr\u003eThe Wisdom of Artabanus\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Hellespont to the Borders of Greece\u003cbr\u003eThe Formation and First Congress of the Hellenic League\u003cbr\u003eThe Expedition to Tempe\u003cbr\u003eThe Oracle of the Wooden Wall\u003cbr\u003eThermopylae and Artemisium: The Greeks' Strategy and First Blood\u003cbr\u003eThe First Storm\u003cbr\u003eThermopylae, Part I: Preliminaries\u003cbr\u003eThermopylae, Part II: The Battle\u003cbr\u003eThermopylae, Part III: Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e12. Trial by Trireme: The Battles at Artemisium and Salamis\u003cbr\u003ePanic at Artemisium\u003cbr\u003eThe Second Storm and the Fighting at Artemisium\u003cbr\u003eThe Greeks Gather at Salamis\u003cbr\u003eThe Persian Conference at Phalerum\u003cbr\u003eThemistocles' Ruse\u003cbr\u003e\"Woe, in Triple Banks of Oars\": The Battle of Salamis\u003cbr\u003eThe Withdrawal of the Persian Fleet\u003cbr\u003eThe Kids, the Queen, and the Castrated\u003cbr\u003eSecrets, Sieges, and Scandal: Themistocles and the Athenian Fleet after Salamis\u003cbr\u003eXerxes' Retreat\u003cbr\u003e13. Conclusing Scenes: The Battles of Plataea and Mycale and the Siege of Sestus\u003cbr\u003eThe Stones of Salamis\u003cbr\u003eThe Road to Plataea\u003cbr\u003ePlataea, Part I: Baggage Trains and Mysterious Strangers\u003cbr\u003ePlataea, Part II: The Battle\u003cbr\u003eThe Battle of Mycale\u003cbr\u003eRoyal Love Affairs\u003cbr\u003eThe Siege of Sestus and the Conclusion of Herodotus' History\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Xerxes' Heralds and the Medizing of the Greek States\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eTranslations\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529525535063,"sku":"9781421406558","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421406558.jpg?v=1731875957","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-herodotus-9781421406558","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}