Reading Herodotus
A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories

This 2007 text contains twelve specially commissioned essays on the historical and literary interpretation of Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories.

Elizabeth Irwin (Edited by), Emily Greenwood (Edited by)

9780521201025, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 21 July 2011

360 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg

"The thick but narrow focus of the volume as a whole makes it a must-read for Herodoteans, though historiographers and Greek prose specialists too will profit from a careful study of it with Book 5; and certainly, any scholar researching any passage in Histories 5 will have to consult it (with the aid of its excellent index locorum)." --BCMR

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.

Introduction Elizabeth Irwin and Emily Greenwood
1. 'What's in a name?' and exploring the comparable: onomastics, ethnography and kratos in Thrace (5.1–2 and 3–10) Elizabeth Irwin
2. The Paeonians: 5.11–17 Robin Osborne
3. Narrating ambiguity: murder and Macedonian alliances: 5.17–22 David Fearn
4. Bridging the narrative: 5.23–7 Emily Greenwood
5. The trouble with the Ionians: Herodotus and the beginning of the Ionian Revolt (5.28–38.1) Rosaria Munson
6. The Dorieus episode and the Ionian Revolt: 5.42–8 Simon Hornblower
7. Aristagoras: 5.49–55.97 Christopher Pelling
8. Structure and significance: 5.55–69 Vivienne Gray
9. Athens and Aegina: 5.82–9 Johannes Haubold
10. 'Saving' Greece from the 'ignominy' of tyranny? The 'famous' and 'wonderful' speech of Socles John Moles
11. Cyprus and Onesilus: an interlude of freedom (5.104, 108–16) Anastasia Serghidou
12. The Fourth Dorian Invasion and the Ionian Revolt (5.76–126) John Henderson.

Subject Areas: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology [HDDK], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA], Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]