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CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS
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P. E. E
Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge
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Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
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Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge
E. J. K
Kennedy Professor Emeritus of Latin, University of Cambridge
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HERODOTUS
HISTORIES
A. M. BOWIE
University Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature and Fellow of
The Queen’s College, Oxford
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Conten t s
List of maps page viiiPreface ixList of abbreviations x
Introduction Medes and Persians Greeks and Persians Xerxes in Herodotus Achaemenid campaigns The battles of Book Structure and narrative modes The language of Herodotus Life of Herodotus The text
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Commentary
Bibliography Indexes
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MAPS
. The Achaemenid empire xii–xiii. Xerxes’ routes in Greece xiv–xv. The battle of Salamis xvi
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PREFACE
In this edition I have had two intentions especially in mind: to try to bring to lifefor the reader the Achaemenid empire, and to offer a good deal of help with thegrammatical aspects of the text. The first intention responds to a growing interestin Greece’s relationships with the Ancient Near East, and will I hope prevent thecommentary and its readers from taking too Hellenocentric a view of Herodotus’account. That Herodotus makes a strong distinction between ‘Greeks’ and ‘Persians’is an idea that is slowly being revised, as the complexity of his presentation is moreand more explored. The second intention responds to my experience at the JACTGreek Summer School, held annually now at Bryanston School, in Dorset. I am verygrateful to my various students there not only for making it clearer to me what isrequired in a modern commentary on a classical text, but also for permitting me totry out on them earlier drafts of the commentary.Although a new text of Herodotus, based on fresh study of the MSS and a con-
sideration of the linguistic problems involved in constituting such a text, is much tobe desired, the text offered here is not the result of a new inspection of the MSS, butaims to be an accessible and readable text. I have been conservative in the matter ofemendation and deletion, but I have introduced a good deal more punctuation than isusual, in order to offer the reader more guidance in the structuring of Herodotus’ sen-tences. Accessibility has also been increased by the introduction of subtitles in Englishinto the Greek text. This is an innovation for the series, but I hope it will make usingthe text more manageable. This and the emphasis on grammatical questions makethis edition rather like nineteenth-century editions, but this may be no bad thing.Numbers in bold refer to chapters in book .As must be the case in an undertaking such as this, I have a number of debts of
gratitude in addition to that mentioned above. James Morwood brought his acuteskills to a reading of the grammatical portions of the commentary, thus saving mefrom various errors, unclarities and infelicities. John Penney read the section of theIntroduction on the language of Herodotus. Stephanie West contributed the sectionson the transmission and reception of the text and on Herodotus’ biography. Finally,anyonewho has been involved in the ‘Green andYellows’ will knowhowmuch authorsowe to the Editors of the series. Their assiduity and advice have brought innumerableimprovements both in style and substance.
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ABBREVIATIONS
I. ANCIENT AUTHORS AND WORKS
Abbreviations of ancient authors and inscriptional collections are largelythose of LSJ, of journals those of L’Annee philologique.
I I . TEXTS AND EDITIONS OF BOOK
Asheri Asheri, D., Erodoto: le Storie, libro , la vittoria di Themistocle,Milan .
Hude Hude, C., Herodoti Historiae, rd edn, , Oxford .Legrand Legrand, P. E., Herodote: Histoires livre Uranie, Paris .Macan Macan, R. W., Herodotus: the seventh, eighth and ninth books,
vols. in , London .Masaracchia Masaracchia, A., Erodoto: le Storie, libro , la battaglia di
Salamina,Milan .Powell Powell, J. E., Herodotus: book , Cambridge .Rosen Rosen, H. B.: Herodoti Historiae, Leipzig –.Shuckburgh Shuckburgh, E. S., Herodotus Urania, Cambridge .Stein Stein, H., Herodotus, th edn, Berlin .
I I I . MODERN WORKS
ANET Pritchard, J. B., Ancient Near Eastern texts relating to the OldTestament, rd edn with supplement, Princeton .
BM British MuseumBrosius Brosius, M., The Persian empire from Cyrus to Artaxerxes
(LACTOR ), London .BHAch Topoi, Supplement : Lyons .BHAch Bulletin d’histoire achemenide , ed. P. Briant, Paris .CAH Cambridge Ancient History
CANE Sasson, J. (ed.), Civilizations of the ancient Near East, –, NewYork .
Chantraine Chantraine, P., Dictionnaire etymologique de la Grecque ancienne:histoire des mots, nd edn, Paris .
F&M Flower, M. A. and Marincola, J., Herodotus: Histories book ,Cambridge .
FdD Fouilles de Delphes, Paris –.
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FGH Jacoby, F., Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, Berlin andLeiden –.
Fornara Fornara, C. W., Archaic times to the end of the Peloponnesian War,nd edn, Cambridge .
Fort. Unpublished Persepolis fortification tablet.GP Denniston, J. D., The Greek particles, nd edn, Oxford .H–N Hansen M. H. and Nielsen, T. H., An inventory of archaic and
classical poleis, Oxford .Humbert Humbert, J., Syntaxe grecque, rd edn., Paris .IEG West, M. L. (ed.), Iambi et elegi graeci, vols., nd edn, Oxford
–.K–G Kuhner, R. and Gerth, B., Ausfuhrliche Grammatik der
griechischen Sprache, –, rd edn, Hanover –.Lex. Powell, J. E., A Lexicon to Herodotus, nd edn, Hildesheim .LGPN Frazer, P. M. and Matthews, E. (eds.), Lexicon of Greek Personal
Names, Oxford –.LIMC Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae graecae, Zurich –.M&T Goodwin, W. W., Syntax of the moods and tenses of the Greek verb,
London .ML Meiggs, R. and Lewis, D. M., A selection of Greek historical
inscriptions to the end of the fifth century, Oxford .PF, PFa Persepolis Fortification Tablets (see Hallock , ).PTT Cameron, G. G., Persepolis Treasury Tablets, Chicago .PFS Persepolis Fortification Seals.RdA Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archaologie, Berlin,
Leipzig and New York –.RE Pauly, A., Wissowa, G. and Kroll, W. (eds.), Real-encyclopadie
der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Stuttgart –.Schmidt Schmidt, E. F., Persepolis --, Chicago –.Smyth Smyth, H. W., Greek Grammar (rev. by G. M. Messing),
Harvard .VS Vorderasiatische Schriftdenkmaler der koniglichen Museen zu Berlin,
Leipzig, –.
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Figure .. The Achaemenid empire.
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Figure .. (cont.)
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Figure .. Xerxes’ routes in Greece.
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Figure .. (cont.)
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Trophy of ThemistoclesSALAMIS
Trophy
Kamatero
Ambelaki
Paloukia
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Arapi173
C. Amphiale
Nera
to Eleusis
B a y o f E l e u s i s
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AyiosYeoryios
Sileniae
C. Tropaea
56 Trophy ofwhite marble
to Piraeus
C. Cynosoura(C.Varvari)
to Piraeusand Athens
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PeramaXerxes’ throne
263M. Aegaleos
M. Corydallus
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engage
Persianfleet about to engage
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Figure .. The battle of Salamis.
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