Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond

Jessica Priestley, PhD (Classics, 2010), University of Cambridge, is the author of Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture: Literary Studies in the Reception of the "Histories" (Oxford University Press, 2014) and several articles on Herodotus.Vasiliki Zali, PhD (Classics, 2009), University College London, is co-ordinator of the University of Liverpool Schools Classics Project and an Honorary Research Fellow of University College London. She is the author of The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric (Brill, 2014). Contributors are: Eran Almagor, Christopher A. Baron, Benjamin Earley, Adam Foley, Vivienne Gray, Greta Hawes, Kinga Kosmala, Dennis Looney, John Marincola, Neville Morley, Heather Neilson, Jessica Priestley, Félix Racine, Andreas Schwab, Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Olga Tribulato, Marek Wecowski, and Vasiliki Zali.

"This companion is a generous and extremely welcome work which both widens and enriches the debate on Herodotus’ reception, a theme that has provoked wide interest in recent decades, after a long period in which scholarship consisted of a sparse list of contributions (...). To sum up, this book is a well-edited product, which also provides indexes and a bibliography of great utility. It is highly recommended not only to Herodotean scholars, but also to experts in ancient historiography, classical reception, and Renaissance studies. All the essays are stimulating; several of them are excellent and offer new acquisitions in the wide field of Herodotean studies."Lorenzo Miletti in BMCR 2018.04.56

• ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on Editors and ContributorsIntroductionJessica Priestley & Vasiliki ZaliPART 1 - “Father of History” 1 Herodotus in Thucydides: A HypothesisMarek Wecowski2 Herodotus and His Successors: The Rhetoric of the Persian Wars in Thucydides and XenophonVasiliki Zali3 Duris of Samos and a Herodotean Model for Writing HistoryChristopher A. Baron4 “This is What Herodotus Relates”: The Presence of Herodotus’ Histories in Josephus’ WritingsEran Almagor5 History without Malice: Plutarch Rewrites the Battle of PlataeaJohn Marincola6 Herodotus in Renaissance FranceBenjamin Earley7 The Anti-Thucydides: Herodotus and the Development of Modern HistoriographyNeville MorleyPART 2 - Language, Translation and Scholarship8 Herodotus’ Reception in Ancient Greek Lexicography and Grammar: From the Hellenistic to the Imperial AgeOlga Tribulato9 Herodotus’ Reputation in Latin Literature from Cicero to the 12th CenturyFélix Racine10 Valla’s Herodotean Labours: Towards a New View of Herodotus in the Italian RenaissanceAdam Foley11 Herodotus and Narrative Art in Renaissance Ferrara: The Translation of Matteo Maria BoiardoDennis Looney12 The ‘Rediscovery’ of Egypt: Herodotus and His Account of Egypt in the Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute-Égypte (1802) by Vivant DenonAndreas Schwab13 Not beyond Herodotus? Psammetichus’ Experiment and Modern Thought about LanguageBenjamin Eldon StevensPART 3 - New Narratives and Genres14 Herodotus (and Ctesias) Re-enacted: Leadership in Xenophon’s CyropaediaVivienne Gray15 Pausanias and the Footsteps of Herodotus Greta Hawes16 Ryszard Kapuściński’s Travels with Herodotus: Reportage from the SelfKinga Kosmala17 Herodotus in Fiction: Gore Vidal’s CreationHeather NeilsonBibliographyIndex