Description
Book SynopsisWalter Blanco’s acclaimed translation of
The Histories is now available in its entirety in this revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology of Events
A Note on the Persian Wars
List of Maps
The Histories
BOOK 1
BOOK 2
BOOK 3
BOOK 4
BOOK 5
BOOK 6
BOOK 7
BOOK 8
BOOK 9
Backgrounds
Aeschylus • From The Persians
Bacchylides • Third Epinician Ode
Thucydides • From The Peloponnesian War
[The Hippocratic Corpus] • From Airs, Waters, Places
Aristotle • From Politics
Plutarch • From On the Malice of Herodotus
The Amazons: Contrasting Accounts
Diodorus of Sicily • From Bibliotheca Historica
Strabo • From Geographica1.5.1–4
Commentaries
Early Modern Criticism
Isaac Taylor • [The Consequences of the Greek Victory for Western Civilization: A Christian View]
John Stuart Mill • [The Consequences of the Greek Victory for Western Civilization: A Secular View]
Thomas Babington Macaulay • [The Purpose and Method of History]
Modern Criticism
I.Background
R. G. Collingwood • History’s Nature, Object, Method, and Value
Christian Meier • The Origins of History in Ancient Greece
Oswyn Murray • Greek Historians
II. Herodotus
James Romm • The Shape of Herodotus’ World
Charles W. Fornara • Herodotus’ Perspective
Arnaldo Momigliano • The Place of Herodotus in the History of Historiography
J. A. S. Evans • Father of History or Father of Lies: The Reputation of Herodotus
III. The Persian Wars
A. T. Olmstead • Persia and the Greek Frontier Problem
Arther Ferrill • Herodotus and the Strategy and Tactics of the Invasion of Xerxes
IV. Aspects of Herodotus' Work
A.W. Gomme • Herodotos and Aeschylus
François Hartog • Amazons: Difference and Inversion
Rosaria Vignolo Munson • Artemisia in Herodotus
John Hart • Themistocles in History
Virginia Hunter • [Homer, Herodotus, and the Egyptian Logos]
Donald Lateiner • Five Systems of Explanation
James Redfield • Herodotus the Tourist
Siep Stuurman • Herodotus and Sima Qian: History and the Anthropological Turn in Ancient Greece and Han China
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
