On Liking Herodotus
Peter Green, 3 April 2014
The Histories
by Herodotus, translated by Tom Holland.
Penguin, 834 pp., £25, September 2013,978 0 7139 9977 8 Show More
by Herodotus, translated by Tom Holland.
Penguin, 834 pp., £25, September 2013,
Herodotus: Vol. I, Herodotus and the Narrative of the Past
edited by Rosaria Vignolo Munson.
Oxford, 495 pp., £40, August 2013,978 0 19 958757 5 Show More
edited by Rosaria Vignolo Munson.
Oxford, 495 pp., £40, August 2013,
Herodotus: Vol. II, Herodotus and the World
edited by Rosaria Vignolo Munson.
Oxford, 473 pp., £40, August 2013,978 0 19 958759 9 Show More
edited by Rosaria Vignolo Munson.
Oxford, 473 pp., £40, August 2013,
Textual Rivals: Self-Presentation in Herodotus’ ‘Histories’
by David Branscome.
Michigan, 272 pp., £60.50, November 2013,978 0 472 11894 6 Show More
by David Branscome.
Michigan, 272 pp., £60.50, November 2013,
The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus
by Joseph Skinner.
Oxford, 343 pp., £55, September 2012,978 0 19 979360 0 Show More
by Joseph Skinner.
Oxford, 343 pp., £55, September 2012,
“... sophisticated thinking of a later age: for Herodotus the struggle is to retrieve actual facts. As David Branscome writes in Textual Rivals, ancient critics ‘found fault with Herodotus precisely at those times when they felt he did not live up to his perceived promise of delivering the truth’. It was no easy business for him: the real achievement of ... ”
