Ancient Worlds in Perspective : Contextualizing Herodotus

by: Degen, J. Klinkott, H. Rollinger, R. Ruffing, K. Truschnegg, V.

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Ancient Worlds in Perspective
Contextualizing Herodotus
Herausgeber: Degen, Julian / Klinkott, Hilmar / Rollinger, Robert / Ruffing, Kai / Brigitte, Truschnegg
Reihe:
Philippika - Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen / Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures
Bandnummer: 150
Umfang/Format: VI, 284 pages, 2 tables
Sprache: English
Ausstattung: Book (Hardback)
Abmessungen: 17.00 × 24.00 cm
Gewicht: 683g
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.07.2024
ISBN: 978-3-447-12133-0

This volume is a collection of papers presented at a workshop commemorating the 20th anniversary of Reinhold Bichler's monograph Herodots Welt.
It convenes a group of international specialists discussing Herodotus´ work from different perspectives. From the backdrop of ongoing scholarly debates, this volume seeks to offer a fresh look on the Histories. The various contributions present a nuanced portrayal of Herodotus as an author and the Histories as a literary cosmos, enhancing our comprehension of one of the most significant surviving texts from the Classical period. The topics cover a wide range of themes, including the structure of Herodotus' historiographical narrative, his responses to the politics of Athens as well as the Achaemenid Empire, and the reception of his work. Finally, Herodotus' description of the “world”, his conceptual ideas on regions and human culture and also the ongoing problems of how to deal with the Histories as a historical source are central questions addressed in this volume.

Contents
Introduction
Robert Rollinger & Brigitte Truschnegg
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Kai Ruffing
“Wilde sind eben nicht unvernünftiger”:
Reinhold Bichler?s Herodotus? World Twenty Years after its Publication . . . . . . . 5
Herodotus? World
Elizabeth Irwin
The Histories in Context: Some Reflections on Publication, Reception,
and Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Daniel Kiechl
Herodots Erzählung von Adrastos und Atys in ihrer Abhängigkeit
von Antiphons zweiter Tetralogie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Thomas Harrison
Herodotus on the Evolution of Human Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Kai Ruffing
Herodotus and Naval Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Sabine Müller
After Herodotus: Images of ?Tyrants? and the Art of Diplomacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Herodotus and the Others
Sabine Kubisch & Hilmar Klinkott
Shaping Identity by Literature:
Udjahorresnet and Herodotus on Cambyses? Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Andreas Schwab
The Variety of Religion in Herodotus?s Histories:
Two Examples from his Narrative on Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Julian Degen
Another Dialogue: Herodotus, Thucydides and the Long Walls of Athens . . . . . 223
Alexander Free
Herodotus Ironized:
the Father of Historiography as Reference for Lucian of Samosata . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Jakub Kuciak
Polycrates and the Herodotean Tradition in Maximos of Tyre?s
Philosophical Orations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Ancient Worlds in Perspective : Contextualizing Herodotus

by: Degen, J. Klinkott, H. Rollinger, R. Ruffing, K. Truschnegg, V.

• ISBN-13: 9783447121330 / 978-3-447-12133-0
• ISBN-03: 3447121335 / 3-447-12133-5
• Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2024

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