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A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV
David Asheri, Alan Lloyd, and Aldo Corcella
Edited by Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno
800 pages
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44 maps
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234x156mm
978-0-19-814956-9
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Hardback
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30 August 2007
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- A comprehensively revised and updated guide to Books I-IV of Herodotus
- An invaluable resource for the study of one of the greatest, and earliest, Western prose writers
Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it - its peoples and their achievements, together with the causes and course of the great wars that brought the Greek cities into conflict with the empires of the Near East. Each subsequent generation of historians has sought to use his text and to measure their knowledge of these cultures against his words.
This commentary by leading scholars, originally published in Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and has now been edited for
English-speaking readers by Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno. It is designed for use alongside the Oxford Classical Text of Herodotus, and will replace the century-old historical commentary of How and Wells (1912) as the most authoritative account of modern scholarship on Herodotus.
Books I-IV cover the history and cultures of Lydia, Egypt, Persia, and the nomads of Scythia and North Africa, in their contacts with the Greeks from mythical times to the start of the fifth century BC; these themes, with many digressions, are woven into an account of the expansion of the Persian Empire and its relations with the Greeks.Readership: Scholars and students of the classics and of ancient
history.
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David Asheri, Formerly Professor of Ancient History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Alan Lloyd, Professor of Ancient History, University of Wales, and Aldo Corcella, Professor of Classical Philology, University of Basilicata Edited by Oswyn Murray, Emeritus Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford, and Alfonso Moreno, Fellow of Magdalen College, OxfordContributors:
Oswyn Murray
David Asheri
David Asheri
Alan Lloyd
David Asheri
Aldo Corcella
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"It is impossible to do justice to a volume of this sort. It will provide endless impulse for further study of Herodotus" - Rosaria Vignolo Munson, Hermathena "...this is a volume to be welcomed and appreciated as a major contribution to Herodotean studies." - Ann Delany Scholia Reviews "The sheer complexity of what has been achieved by the translation's energetic editors, Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno, is staggering." - Edith Hall, Times Literary Supplement "...a monumental and enduring contribution to the study of Herodotus and his Histories. It is magnificent both in the general and in the particular." - Lynette G. Mitchell, Byrn Mawr Classical
Review "The edition has been the result of considerable and complicated collaboration, and the volume must be welcomed unreservedly" - Rosalind Thomas, The Classical Review
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Oswyn Murray: David Asheri
David Asheri: General Introduction
Book IDavid Asheri:
Book IIAlan Lloyd:
Book IIIDavid Asheri:
Book IVAldo Corcella:
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