HERODOTUS xi. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Silvio Accame, “La leggenda di Ciro in Erodoto e in Carone di Lampsaco,” Miscellanea Greca e…

HERODOTUS x. ARTAYCTES AND THE FINALE Sestus. After the battle of Mycale, the Greeks advanced as far as the Hellespont,…

HERODOTUS viii. MARDONIUS ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS Second offensive and retreat. After Xerxes’ retreat, Mardonius prepared his offensive on land. He…

HERODOTUS ix. TIGRANES AND THE BATTLE OF MYCALE The fleets after Salamis. After Salamis, the escaped Persian fleet for a…

HERODOTUS vi. DARIUS ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS The false Smerdis. Herodotus connects the beginning of Darius’s reign with a deep break…

HERODOTUS vii. XERXES ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS Bad advisors. The young king inherited a solid empire, which was greater than any…

HERODOTUS iii. DEFINING THE PERSIANS E´thnos “people.” In the Histories the Persians are sometimes not exactly distinguishable from other peoples…

HERODOTUS iv. CYRUS ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS Time before kingship. The historical past takes on clearer outline beginning with the figure…

HERODOTUS v. CAMBYSES ACCORDING TO HERODOTUS Genealogy. Cambyses, the son of Cyrus, is first described by Herodotus at a time…

HERODOTUS (Gk.Hēródotos), author of theHistories, the first monumental Greek work in prose which is still extant (5th cent. B.C.E.). Information…

HERODOTUS i. INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORIES Philologists of Hellenistic times divided Herodotus’s opus magnum into nine books and subdivided these into…

HERODOTUS ii. THE HISTORIES AS A SOURCE FOR PERSIA AND PERSIANS An evaluation of Herodotus’s treatment of Persia and the…

GREECE vi. THE IMAGE OF PERSIA AND PERSIANS IN GREEK LITERATURE The image of Persia in Greek literature is highly…