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Charles W. Fornara's Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay (Oxford, 1971) was a landmark publication in the study of the great Greek historian. Well-known in particular for its main thesis that the Histories should be read against the background of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars during which it was written, its insight and penetrating discussion extend to a range of other issues, from the relative unity of Herodotus' work and the relationship between his ethnographies and historical narrative, to the themes and motifs that criss-cross the Histories - how 'history became moral and Herodotus didactic'.
Interpreting Herodotus brings together a team of leading Herodotean scholars to look afresh at the themes of Fornara's seminal Essay in the light of the explosion of scholarship on the Histories in the intervening years, focusing particularly on how we can interpret Herodotus' work in terms of the context in which he wrote. What does it mean to talk of the unity of the Histories, or Herodotus' 'moral' purpose? How can we reconstruct the context in which the Histories were written and published? And in what sense might the Histories constitute a 'warning' for his own, or for subsequent, generations? In developing and interrogating Fornara's influential ideas for a new generation of scholars, the volume also offers a wealth of insights and new perspectives on the 'Father of History' that attests to the vibrancy and diversity of contemporary engagement with Herodotus.
Contents
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations and Conventions
List of Contributors
1: Thomas Harrison and Elizabeth Irwin: Introduction
2: John Dillery: Making Logoi: Herodotus' Book 2 and Hecataeus of Miletus
3: Ewen Bowie: The Lesson of Book 2
4: Reinhold Bichler: Herodotus' Book 2 and the Unity of the Work
5: Christopher Tuplin: Dogs That Do Not (Always) Bark: Herodotus on Persian Egypt
6: Robert Rollinger: Herodotus and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern Motifs: Darius I, Oebares, and the Neighing Horse
7: Kai Ruffing: Gifts for Cyrus, Tribute for Darius
8: Emily Greenwood: Surveying Greatness and Magnitude in Herodotus
9: Joseph E. Skinner: Herodotus and his World
10: Jonas Grethlein: The Dynamics of Time: Herodotus' Histories and Contemporary Athens Before and After Fornara
11: Wolfgang Blösel: Herodotus' Allusions to the Sparta of his Day
12: P. J. Rhodes: Herodotus and Democracy
13: Elizabeth Irwin: The End of the Histories and the End of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars
14: Thomas Harrison: The Moral of History
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
