Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour Through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The HistoryJHU Press, 15 set 2012 - 329 pagine Hamel takes us on a delightful, audacious romp through The History of the Persian Wars. Debra Hamel’s book is a lively introduction to The History of the Persian Wars, Herodotus's account of Persia's expansion under four kings—Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes—and its eventual collision with the city-states of Greece. The History can be a long slog for modern readers, but it is full of salacious tales about sex, violent death, divine prophecies, and cannibals. Following the structure of the original work, Hamel leads the reader through a colorful tour of the central stories that compose The History. She highlights the more interesting and important parts of the story while providing readers who are new to Herodotus with the background information necessary to appreciate the author’s wide-ranging subject matter. At once academic and cheeky, the experience of this book is like reading Herodotus while simultaneously consulting a history of Greece and a scholarly commentary on the text. |
Sommario
Introduction | 1 |
The Story of Croesus of Lydia | 7 |
The Story of Cyrus the Great | 35 |
The Egyptian Logos | 60 |
The Reign of Cambyses | 78 |
The Stories of Polycrates and Periander | 98 |
The Early Reign of Darius the Great | 111 |
Darius Scythian Campaign | 136 |
The Second Persian War to the Battle of Thermopylae | 206 |
The Battles at Artemisium and Salamis | 240 |
The Battles of Plataea and Mycale and the Siege of Sestus | 269 |
Xerxes Heralds and the Medizing of the Greek States 7131132 | 291 |
Notes | 293 |
Translations | 301 |
Bibliography | 303 |
317 | |
The Libyan Logos | 149 |
The Ionian Revolt and PostPisistratid Athens | 159 |
The First Persian War | 181 |
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