Reading Herodotus

Elizabeth Irwin is Assistant Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the author of Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation (2005). Emily Greenwood is Lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Thucydides and the Shaping of History (2006) and co-editor, with Barbara Graziosi, of Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (2007).

"The thick but narrow focus of the volume as a whole makes it a must-read for Herodoteans, though historiographers and Greek prose specialists too will profit from a careful study of it with Book 5; and certainly, any scholar researching any passage in Histories 5 will have to consult it (with the aid of its excellent index locorum)." --BCMR

• Introduction Elizabeth Irwin and Emily Greenwood; 1. 'What's in a name?' and exploring the comparable: onomastics, ethnography and kratos in Thrace (5.1–2 and 3–10) Elizabeth Irwin; 2. The Paeonians: 5.11–17 Robin Osborne; 3. Narrating ambiguity: murder and Macedonian alliances: 5.17–22 David Fearn; 4. Bridging the narrative: 5.23–7 Emily Greenwood; 5. The trouble with the Ionians: Herodotus and the beginning of the Ionian Revolt (5.28–38.1) Rosaria Munson; 6. The Dorieus episode and the Ionian Revolt: 5.42–8 Simon Hornblower; 7. Aristagoras: 5.49–55.97 Christopher Pelling; 8. Structure and significance: 5.55–69 Vivienne Gray; 9. Athens and Aegina: 5.82–9 Johannes Haubold; 10. 'Saving' Greece from the 'ignominy' of tyranny? The 'famous' and 'wonderful' speech of Socles John Moles; 11. Cyprus and Onesilus: an interlude of freedom (5.104, 108–16) Anastasia Serghidou; 12. The Fourth Dorian Invasion and the Ionian Revolt (5.76–126) John Henderson.