A guide to reading Herodotus' "Histories":
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Boxes xi
Author’s Note xiii
Approaches to Herodotus
A literary historian 3
The form of the Histories 7
Herodotus the historian 13
Herodotus5 sources and methodology 14
Mythical time, historical time, folk tales 18
Causation 20
Herodotus the ethnographer 27
The Histories as literature 33
Telling stories 35
Literary influences 38
Themes and patterns 41
Fate 41
Life, luck and everything 44
Nomos 47
Notes to Approaches 51
Commentary
Book One: Croesus and Cyrus 61
Proem 61
Herodotus5 preface 61
Abductions (1.1-5) 63
CONTENTS
viii
Story of Croesus 67
Lydian kings before Croesus (1.6-25) 67
Croesus as king (1.26-94) 70
Story of Cyrus 76
Kings of the Medes before Astyages (1.95-106) 76
Cyrus (1.107-30) 78
Persian ethnography (1.131-40) 81
The Ionia logos (1.141-76) 82
Cyrus, Babylon and the Massagetae (1.177-216) 84
Book Two: Egypt 89
Introduction 89
Introducing Egypt (2,1-4) 91
Geography of Egypt (2.5-34) 95
Ethnography of Egypt 96
Inverse symmetries and sacrifices (2.35-41) 96
Egyptian gods: Heracles, Pan and Dionysus (2.42-9) 96
The naming of gods, Dodona and festivals (2.50-64) 98
Animal lore (2.65-76) 100
Customs (2.77-97) 101
History of Egypt 102
Early kings and the Helen logos (2.99-120) 102
Rhampsinitus, pyramid builders and chronology (2.121-46) 107
The Labyrinth and the Saite kings (2.147-78) 109
Book Three: Cambyses, Samos and Darius ill
Introduction 111
Cambyses’ campaign in Egypt (3.1-16) 112
Cambyses and Ethiopia (3.17-25) 114
Cambyses: truth and falsehood (3.26-38) 116
The Samos story (part 1): Polycrates and Periander (3.39-60) 119
The false Smerdis and death of Cambyses (3.61-6) 120
The coup and Constitutional Debate (3.67-83) 122
The empire and the fringes of the world (3.84-119) 124
The Samos story (part 2): the death of Polycrates (3.120-8) 126
Darius’campaigns and the Samos story (part 3) (3.129-60) 127
CONTENTS
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Book Four: Darius, Scythia and Libya 131
Scythia and Darius 131
Background (4.1-4) 134
Scythia: origins, people, geography (4.5-58) 135
Scythian customs (4.59-80) 137
Darius’ expedition to Scythia 140
The march to the Ister (4.83-98) 140
Scythian strategy and potential allies (4.102-20) 142
The Scythian campaign (4.121-44) 143
Cyrene and the Persian expedition 146
The foundation of Thera (4.145-9) 147
The foundation of Cyrene and its kings (4.150-67) 148
Ethnography of Libya (4.168-99) 151
Book Five: The Ionian revolt - causes and
outbreak 153
Before the Ionian revolt 153
Persian campaigns in Europe (5.1-27) 156
The Naxos affair and Ionian revolt (5.28-38) 160
Sparta and Aristagoras (5.39-54) 161
Athenian history (5.55-96) 164
Athens: end of tyranny and Cleisthenes (5.62-9) 166
Athens: Cleomenes, Isagoras and Hippias (5.70-96) 167
The Ionian revolt (5.97-126) 171
Book Six: The Ionian revolt - defeat and aftermath
Introduction 173
Failure of the Ionian revolt (6.1-33) 175
After the Ionian revolt (6.34-48) 178
Sparta, Aegina and Athens (6.49-94) 179
The Marathon campaign (6.94-140) 185
Book Seven: The road to Thermopylae 193
Introduction 193
Debates and dreams (7.1-19) 197
Reaching and crossing the Hellespont (7.20-56) 202
Hellespont to Thermopylae (7.57-131) 207
The Greeks respond (7.132-77) 210
Thermopylae (7.178-239) 212
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CONTENTS
Book Eight: Showdown at Salamis 215
Artemisium and retreat (8.1-39) 215
Before Salamis (8.40-83) 221
The Battle of Salamis (8.84-96) 224
After Salamis (8.97-144) 226
Book Nine: Persia defeated 233
Hostilities resumed (9.1-27) 233
Battle of Plataea (9.28-75) 237
Plataea’s aftermath (9.76-89) 240
Battle of Mycale (9.90-107) 241
The ending of the Histories 243
Xerxes’ infatuations (9.108-13) 244
Artayctes (9.116-20) 246
Cyrus’ advice (9.122) 248
Notes to Commentary 251
Bibliography 285
Index 307
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