The Cambridge companion to Herodotus by Carolyn Dewald; John Marincola
By Carolyn Dewald; John Marincola
Discussing Herodotus' 'Histories', the members discover impression, context, innovations and issues, illustration of the Greeks' relationships with foreigners and reception. integrated is research of Herodotus' affects, Homer specifically. Herodotus and the poetry of the earlier / John Marincola -- Herodotus and his prose predecessors / Robert Fowler -- Herodotus and tragedy / Jasper Griffin -- The highbrow milieu of Herodotus / Rosalind Thomas -- Meta-historiē : procedure and style within the Histories / Nino Luraghi -- The syntax of historiē : how Herodotus writes / Egbert Bakker -- Speech and narrative within the Histories / Christopher Pelling -- Herodotus, Sophocles and the lady who sought after her brother stored / Carolyn Dewald and Rachael Kitzinger -- tales and storytelling within the Histories / Alan Griffiths -- Humour and threat in Herodotus / Carolyn Dewald -- situation and dislocation in Herodotus / Rachel Friedman -- Herodotus and the flora and fauna / James Romm -- Herodotus and Greek faith / Scott Scullion -- conflict in Herodotus / Lawrence Tritle -- Herodotus, political historical past and political suggestion / Sara Forsdyke -- Herodotus and the towns of mainland Greece / Philip Stadter -- another international : Herodotus and Italy / Rosaria Vignolo Munson -- Herodotus and Persia / Michael Flower -- Herodotus and international lands / Tim Rood -- Herodotus' effect in antiquity / Simon Hornblower Popularly referred to as the 'Father of History', Herodotus is the 1st significant prose author within the background of Western literature whose paintings has survived in complete. At a time whilst the traditional Greeks' wisdom of the previous depended on orally transmitted thoughts, he was once a pioneering old practitioner who explored the interaction of fable and historical past and the function of narrative in historical past. participants to this quantity study Herodotus' Histories and their impression. Taking a thematic procedure, they discover the Histories and their context, ideas and topics, illustration of the Greeks' relationships with foreigners and reception
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Foundation (Ktisis) of Chios by Ion of Chios (mid to late fifth century). It is not certain that this was a poem: Jacoby (1947) 4–7 argues that it was in prose; cf. Bowie (1986) 32 n. 104. NOTES 1. On poetry and poets in the archaic age see Gentili (1988); Nagy (1989). 2. On these figures and the intellectual revolution in general see Lloyd (1987). ¨ 3. See Rosler (1990) 236; for Panyassis’ fragments see Bernab´e (1988) 171–87; for treatments, Huxley (1969) 177–88; Matthews (1974). 25 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 jo h n m a r i n c o l a 4.
In a famous passage of the Poetics, Aristotle distinguished between history and poetry, pronouncing the latter ‘more serious and more philosophical’ because it aimed at the general or probable (‘the things that would happen in accordance with probability or necessity’), whereas history was about particulars (‘what Alcibiades did or had done to him’). 48 G. E. M. de Ste. 49 Indeed, Herodotus, while pursuing a different kind of truth, in no way abandoned or thought unimportant traditional poetic conceptions of truth, and it is clear that he saw not only the particular but also the universal.
Early History of the Samians (Archaiologia ton by Semonides of Amorgos (mid-seventh century). Possibly 4,000 verses in length; most likely dealt with the foundation and early events in Samos’ history. 2. Smyrneis by Mimnermus of Colophon (mid- to late-seventh century). This work contained an elaborate preface in which the Muses were invoked (IEG F 13) and a full narrative with speeches (FF 13–13a); a fragment about the settlement of Colophon (F 9) might also be from this poem. 3. Foundation (Ktisis) of Colophon and Colonisation of Elea by Xenophanes of Colophon (late sixth/early fifth century).