Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes’ invasion: Place and memory in Greece and Anatolia

by: van Rookhuijzen, J.Z.

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In his Histories, Herodotus of Halicarnassus gave an account of Xerxes? invasion of Greece (480 BCE). Among the information in this work features a rich topography of the places visited by the army, as well as of the battlefields. Apparently there existed a certain demand among the Greeks to behold the exact places where they believed that the Greeks had fallen, gods had appeared, or Xerxes had watched over his men. This book argues that Herodotus? topography, long taken at face value as if it provided unambiguous access to the historical sites of the war, may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the Xerxes? invasion and its publication, with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion, and of the ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them. It also prompts new suggestions about the real-world locations of various places mentioned in Herodotus? text. Jan Zacharias van Rookhuijzen, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.

Frontmatter
Pages I-VIII

Preface
Pages IX-X

Contents
Pages XI-XIV

List of maps and figures
Pages XV-XVI

1. Introduction
Pages 1-38

2. Topographical Case Studies
Pages 39-289

3. A Typology of Mnemotopes
Pages 290-308

4. Conclusion
Pages 309-309

Bibliography
Pages 310-350

Index Locorum
Pages 351-364

General Index
Pages 365-374

Herodotus and the topography of Xerxes’ invasion: Place and memory in Greece and Anatolia

by: van Rookhuijzen, J.Z.

• ISBN-13: 9783110610208 / 978-3-11-061020-8
• ISBN-03: 3110610205 / 3-11-061020-5
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2018

Price: 116,55 EURO

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