Herodotus is not merely an historian he is also a political commentator, a geographer, an anthropologist and a philosopher. The great men of the age are vividly described and extraordinary details of customs, places and even the weather are sketched in. Herodotus has a powerful narrative style and penetrating eye for character. Despite its remoteness from our own time, this is a fascinating story, told by a great writer. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order to explain how this war came about, he also describes the rise of the Persian empire and analyses the causes of its conflict with neighbouring states.
484-420 BC), was the first man to tell a story in prose on the scale of the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c.The Herodotus Encyclopedia is an indispensable text for scholars in classics and related fields, instructors who cover Herodotus or Greek history in their courses, research libraries, and students of ancient Greek history and literature. Features maps and illustrations, a user guide, an index, and full bibliographical information in each entry.Incorporates the methods and findings of several different disciplines in the humanities.Addresses the reception of Herodotus during antiquity and beyond.Considers the historical and cultural contexts within which Herodotus wrote and lived.Provides discussions of the history of Herodotean studies and scholarship.
Offers entries for every proper name, group, and region mentioned in Herodotus' Histories.Many entries also explore the text's scholarship and reception from antiquity up to the present day.
Featuring contributions from an international team of more than 150 scholars, it offers more than 2,500 entries which cover the individuals, peoples, and places Herodotus names in his Histories the composition and central themes in his work and the historical, social, intellectual, and literary context of the period. Spanning three volumes, The Herodotus Encyclopedia surveys the current state of knowledge and understanding of Herodotus’ work, and discusses past, current, and emerging approaches to the text. Topics include the debt of Greek historical writing to epic poetry (and other genres) narratological analysis of the text Herodotus' position vis-à-vis his predecessors and contemporaries his use of sources his notion of Greekness and the growing body of Persian and other Near Eastern evidence for sixth- and fifth century events. The first work of its kind, this book offers students and faculty of all levels an easy-to-use, up-to-date reference tool on Herodotus of Halicarnassus (the "Father of History") and provides Herodotean scholars with a collection of important strands of recent work. Provides a comprehensive gateway to Herodotus' Histories, the story they tell, and the world in which they were written
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