HERODOTUS AND HIS WORLD: ESSAYS FROM A CONFERENCE IN MEMORY OF GEORGE FORREST; ED. BY PETER DEROW

## Abstract This book contains detailed studies of a number of individual passages and episodes (which always turn out to have wider ramifications for the understanding of Herodotus or for the history of the archaic and classical Greek world, or both) as well as considerations of wider themes (perceptions of ethnicity and ideas of ‘tradition’, of historical space and about the origins of history). Topics included are: prophecy, oracle-selling, and resurrection, and also narrative management and the prosaics of death. The Herodotean chronology is revisited. There are also accounts on epiphany, and of why Herodotus did not mention the Hanging Gardens and why he has not been taken as seriously as he should have been by military historians. Finally, the book examines Cleisthenes and Cleomenes, Argos and Corinth, and Athens and its democracy.

Stunning in range and diversity, this collection of lively new essays by an international team of experts illuminates Herodotus and the world in which he wrote. In addition to presenting a picture of Herodotean studies today the volume offers plenty to stimulate further enquiry. It also provides an important reminder of the enduring insights and legacies of the work of George Forrest.

This collection of essays illuminates Herodotus and the world in which he wrote. In addition to presenting a picture of Herodotean studies today, this volume provides a reminder of the insights and legacies of the work of George Forrest "Stunning in range and diversity, this collection of essays by an international group of scholars illuminates Herodotus and the world in and about which he wrote."--Page 4 de la couverture "Stunning in range and diversity, this collection of essays by an international group of scholars illuminates Herodotus and the world in and about which he wrote."--Jacket.