Herodotus and his World

Peter Derow is Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Wadham College, OxfordRobert Parker is Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford and Fellow of New College

• Part I: Narrative ; 1. Authorial Voice and Narrative Management in Herodotus ; 2. Pedestrian Fatalities: the Prosaics of Death in Herodotus ; 3. Panionios of Chios and Hermotimos of Pedasa ; 4. Herodotean Chronology ; 5. Who Was Actually Buried in the First of the Three Spartan Tombs? (Hdt 9.85.1)?: Textual and Historical Problems ; 6. The Oldest 'New' Military Historians: Herodotus, W. G. Forrest, and the Historiography of War ; Part II: Peoples and Places ; 7. Herodotus (and others) on Pelasgians: Some Perceptions of Ethnicity ; 8. Herodotus' Conception of Historical Space ; 9. 'Tradition' in Herodotus: The Foundation of Cyrene ; 10. Why Did Herodotus Not Mention the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? ; 11. Athenaiosi tetagmenoisi en temenei Herakleos (Hdt 6.108.1) ; 12. Herodotus (8.137-8), the Manumissions from Leukopetra, and the Topography fo the Middle Haliakmon Valley ; 13. Cleisthenes (of Athens) and Corinth ; Part III: Religion ; 14. 'Prophecy in Reverse'? Herodotus and the Origins of History ; 15. Oracles for Sale ; 16. The Common Oracle of the Milesians and the Argives (Hdt. 6.19 and 77) ; 17. Herodotus and the 'Resurrection' ; Part IV: Herodotus and Athens ; 18. Herodotus and Athens ; 19. Democracy without Theory

The breadth of Herodotus' learning is reflected in the scholarship on display in this volume. Above all, this book has refreshed a long-standing interest in Herodotus, and given me the urge to re-read what Herodotus himself has to say. I feel that the honourand of this book would approve of this approach.