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The Histories

Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chronology of Events
  • A Note on the Persian Wars
  • Map: The Persian Wars
  • The Histories
    • Book I
    • Book II, Chapters 1-98, 112-120
    • Book II, Chapters 1-98, 112-120
    • Book III, Chapters 39-43, 61-88, 98-105
    • Book IV, Chapters 36-44
    • Book V, Chapters 48-105
    • Book VI, Chapters 98-117
    • Book VII, Chapters 1-57, 89-105, 138-52, 172-239
    • Book VIII, Chapters 1-125
    • Book IX, Chapters 51-64
  • Backgrounds
    • Aeschylus, The Persians, II. 334-514
    • Bacchylides, Third Epinician Ode, 11.10-62
    • Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 1, Chapters 1-23, 89-117; Book 3, Chapter 104
    • Aristotle, Politics, 1313a.34-1314a.14
    • Plutarch, On the Malice of Herodotus
  • Commentaries
  • EARLY MODERN CRITICISM
    • David Hume … Of Miracles
    • Isaac Taylor …[The Consequences of the Greek Victory for Western Civilization: A Christian View]
    • John Stuart Mill … [The Consequences of the Greek Victory for Western Civilization: A Secular View]
    • Thomas Babington Macaulay … [The Purpose and Method of History
  • TWENTIETH-CENTURY CRITICISM
  • I. Background
    • R. G. Collingwood … History’s Nature, Object, Method, and Value
    • Christian Meier … The Origins of History in Ancient Greee
    • Oswyn Murray … Greek Historians
  • II. Herodotus
    • Aubrey de Sélincourt … [The Life of Herodotus]
    • James Romm … The Shape of Herodotus’s World
    • Charles W. Fornara … Herodotus’ Perspective
    • Stanley Rosen … Herodotus Reconsidered
    • Arnaldo Momigliano … The Place of Herodotus in the History of Historiography
    • J. A. S. Evans … Father of History or Father of Lies: The Reputation of Herodotus
  • III. The Persian Wars
    • A. T. Olmstead … Persia and the Greek Frontier Problem
    • Arther Ferrill … Herodotus and the Strategy and Tactics of the Invasion of Xerxes
  • IV. Aspects of Herodotus’s Work
    • A. W. Gomme … Herodotos and Aeschylus
    • M. E. White … Herodotus’s Starting Point
    • Rosaria Vignolo Munson … The Celebratory Purpose of Herodotus: The Story of Arion
    • John Hart … Themistocles in History
    • Virginia Hunter … [Homer, Herodotus, and the Egyptian Logos]
    • Donald Lateiner … Five Systems of Explanation
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography