Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond examines the reception and cultural transmission of Herodotus' Histories, one of the most controversial and influential texts ...to have survived from Classical Antiquity, from ancient up to modern times.
In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. ...Herodotus and the Question Why offers a comprehensive examination of the methods behind the Histories and the challenge of documenting human experiences, from the Persian Wars to cultural traditions. In lively, accessible prose, Christopher Pelling explores such elements as reconstructing the mentalities of storyteller and audience alike; distinctions between the human and the divine; and the evolving concepts of freedom, democracy, and individualism. Pelling traces the similarities between Herodotus's approach to physical phenomena (Why does the Nile flood?) and to landmark events (Why did Xerxes invade Greece? And why did the Greeks win?), delivering a fascinating look at the explanatory process itself. The cultural forces that shaped Herodotus's thinking left a lasting legacy for us, making Herodotus and the Question Why especially relevant as we try to record and narrate the stories of our time and to fully understand them.
Polícrates onírico: el sueño en la obra de Heródoto Ojeda Sánchez, Olga Constanza
Espacio, tiempo y forma. revista de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia / Serie 2, Historia antigua,
11/2022
35
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
El objetivo de este artículo es comentar el párrafo 124 del libro III de Heródoto en Historias, concretamente la cuestión del sueño de la hija de Polícrates. La particularidad de este pasaje deja ...paso a una serie de paralelismos dentro del mundo onírico en la obra de Heródoto, por lo que planteamos exponer un análisis de las figuras que aparecen en el discurso respetando las fuentes.
Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus' ...Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and the overarching structure of Herodotus' narrative. This collection of twelve essays by internationally renowned scholars represents an important contribution to scholarship on Herodotus and will serve as an essential research tool for all those interested in Book 5 of the Histories, the interpretation of Herodotean narrative, and the historiography of the Ionian Revolt.
Herodotus wrote down a very brief account of the history of Assyria in his Histories, but he promised to deliver a complete logos as well. We can find two remarks on this future project that ...(possibly) never materialized in the end. In the preserved text, there are only several mentions of Assyrian kings, history, and customs, but it seems he planned to expand the narrative further, potentially in a separate piece of work. The result was a mysterious Assyrian logos. In this article, I will explore the possible influence of Herodotus' account on the Greek tradition about this eastern land through either one of these logoi, if, in fact, he had any at all. In the first part, I will examine the sources, whether they refer to his more detailed treatise on Assyria, and what can be said about this work in general. In the second part, I will focus on his extant Assyrian logos, whether any later author (most notably Ctesias and Berossus) could have used his work as a source, and who became the authorities on the history of Assyria, considering the changes in the narratives.
Il presente decreto promulgato da Delfi stabilisce la concessione della προμαντεία agli abitanti di Chio. Tale privilegio consente la precedenza nella consultazione dell’oracolo, una precedenza ...relativa poiché gli abitanti di Delfi avevano la precedenza assoluta nell’interrogare l’oracolo. Tale privilegio fu probabilmente attribuito ai Chii prima dell’effettiva incisione del decreto, la cui datazione risale all’epoca dell’erezione del complesso dedicatorio. L’altare fu edificato alla fine del IV secolo a.C., dopo il terremoto che danneggiò il primo altare, di cui fa menzione Erodoto in 2.135. Lo stile imitato nella formulazione dell’epigrafe riprende una solennità quasi arcaica, ad avvalorare l’ipotesi di una concessione antica del privilegio. La concessione della προμαντεία è di fatto piuttosto comune a Delfi, come attestato da differenti esempi epigrafici di decreti destinati ad altri gruppi etnici (e.g. Turii, Etoli).
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