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Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories
Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze 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 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.
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First published August 1, 2007
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April 21, 2015
"we've seen the enemy; they're us."
Book 5 of the Histories is a bridge between the two halves of the work/world that Herodotus' narrative has created.
It's not fair to say one part of the whole is more complex or more vital to the overall all effect of the Histories than any other part, but Book 5 is vital. It is in dialogue with other books and extra textual sources to an extant that is truly amazing.
High points of the present work:
Dying of worms, vengeance, tisis, the 480 invasion....
Severed heads....Cyrus, Scylax, the tattooed slave, Onesilus (the bees made honey in the Cypriot's skull) & Histiaeus.
The Paeonians as Sparta.
After reading this book I have come to the conclusion that it may be necessarily to "close read" the Histories to unbelievable degrees to wring the last bit from it. There would still be some juice left.
5 stars.....also, The footnotes in John Henderson's contribution are worth the price of the book.
Book 5 of the Histories is a bridge between the two halves of the work/world that Herodotus' narrative has created.
It's not fair to say one part of the whole is more complex or more vital to the overall all effect of the Histories than any other part, but Book 5 is vital. It is in dialogue with other books and extra textual sources to an extant that is truly amazing.
High points of the present work:
Dying of worms, vengeance, tisis, the 480 invasion....
Severed heads....Cyrus, Scylax, the tattooed slave, Onesilus (the bees made honey in the Cypriot's skull) & Histiaeus.
The Paeonians as Sparta.
After reading this book I have come to the conclusion that it may be necessarily to "close read" the Histories to unbelievable degrees to wring the last bit from it. There would still be some juice left.
5 stars.....also, The footnotes in John Henderson's contribution are worth the price of the book.
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