Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books
With Introduction, Text, Apparatus, Commentary, Appendices, Indices, Maps

This 1908 edition of the last books of Herodotus is particularly valuable for its introduction, commentary, maps, appendices and indexes.

Herodotus (Author), Reginald Walter Macan (Edited by)

9781108009706, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 April 2010

492 pages, 6 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.62 kg

Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, the classical scholar Reginald Walter Macan (1848–1941) published in 1908 this two-volume edition (in three parts) of the last books of Herodotus, which cover the Greco-Persian Wars during the period 486 to 479 BCE. Volume 2 contains appendices, indexes and maps pertinent to Books 7-9. Macan includes essays on supporting authorities, hypotheses on lost witnesses, and textual evidence presented by poets such as Pindar and the philosophers Plato and Aristotle. He also examines the events in the last books of The Histories, outlining the preparations of the Persians and Greeks for war, as well as reviewing the conflict's strategic aspects as it shifted from Thessaly through to Plataea and Sestos. Macan's edition remains valuable to scholars of the history of textual criticism and the historiography of the classical world.

Appendices: 1. Authorities and evidences, other than Herodotus, for the history of the Persian war
2. The Persian preparations
3. The preparations of the Greeks
4. General strategic aspects of the war
5. Artemision–Thermopylai
6. Salamis
7. From Salamis to Sestos
8. Plataia
9. The chronology of the war
Indices.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]