and the Achaemenid Empire. Her research addresses, among other topics, the impact of Achaemenid Persian rhetoric on Greek and Near Eastern historiography, and the dialogue between the ancient Greek and Iranian civilizations in Iran (http://iranohellenica.eie.gr/).
SYNOPSIS OF ENTRIES
This overview is arranged along thematic and conceptual lines, divided into three sections: 1) Text (the physical work and its reception); 2) Context (historical, intellectual, social, and cultural background); 3) Histories (its internal features as a literary work). The synopsis is necessarily schematic; the treatment offered in many entries will range well beyond the label they receive here.
The Synopsis does not contain the vast majority of the proper names found in the Histories (individuals, places, topographical features, tribes), all of which receive their own headword.
Major Categories (in bold and ALL CAPS) and Subcategories (ALL CAPS) receive their own entry unless they are bracketed.
I. Text
1.1 [TEXT AND TRANSMISSION]
book divisions
editions
manuscripts
papyri
scholia
translations
1.2 [SCHOLARSHIP]
archaeology
epigraphy1.2.1 SCHOLARSHIP ON HERODOTUS, ANCIENT GREECE AND ROMEAristarchus of Samothrace1.2.2 SCHOLARSHIP ON HERODOTUS, RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN1.2.3 SCHOLARSHIP ON HERODOTUS, 1750–1945Jacoby, FelixMacan, Reginald WalterPowell, John EnochStein, Heinrich1.2.4 SCHOLARSHIP ON HERODOTUS, 1945–2018anthropologyAsheri, DavidBlack Athenacounterfactual historyImmerwahr, Henry“Liar School”Momigliano, ArnaldonarratologyOrientalismThemistocles Decree
1.3 [RECEPTION]
“Father of History”
reliability1.3.1 RECEPTION OF HERODOTUS, ANCIENT GREECE AND ROMEAristophanesAristotleCtesiasDionysius of HalicarnassusEphorusHellenistic historiansJosephusLucianPlutarchStraboTheopompus of ChiosThucydidesXenophon1.3.2 RECEPTION OF HERODOTUS, CHRISTIAN1.3.3 RECEPTION OF HERODOTUS, 1300–1750Valla, Lorenzo1.3.4 RECEPTION OF HERODOTUS, 1750–1900Rawlinson, Henry and George1.3.5 RECEPTION OF HERODOTUS, 1900 TO PRESENTcinematravel literature
II. Context
2.1 [HISTORICAL BACKGROUND]
2.1.1 GREECE (see HELLAS)Archaic AgeAthenian EmpirecleruchycolonizationDelian Leaguedialects, GreekemporionethnicityHellenic LeaguehelotsHeroic AgeIonian RevoltmedizeOath of PlataeaPanhellenismPeloponnesian LeaguePeloponnesian WarPersian Warsships and sailing
2.1.2 PERSIABardiya (see Smerdis)Bisitunconcubinesearth and watereunuchsNear Eastern historyPersepolisproskynesisreligion, PersianRoyal Roadsatrapiestiara
2.2 [INTELLECTUAL AND LITERARY BACKGROUND]
display (epideixis)
etymology
fable
genealogies
logos
orality and literacy
periplus
Persica
rhetoric
Seven Sages
sophists
2.2.1 POETRYAeschylusepic poetryHesiodHomerPindarSimonides of CeosSophoclestragedy
2.2.2 PROSEHecataeusIonic dialectmedical writers
2.2.3 SCIENCEclimategeologymedicinephilosophy
2.3 [SOCIETY]
athletes and athletic games
bribery
bronze
death
disease
dress
education, ancient
games
gender
hunting
iron
monuments
music
pederasty
prostitution
slavery
textiles
travel
writing
2.3.1 FAMILYchildrendomestic economymarriagewomen in ancient Greece
2.3.2 POLISacropolisagoraassemblydemeperioeciproxenosprytaneionwalls
2.3.3 [GOVERNMENT]aristocracydecision‐makingdemocracyephorsisonomialotmonarchyoligarchystasistyrants
2.3.4 LAWjudgesmurderpunishment
2.3.5 [ECONOMY]goldhandicraftsminingmoneysilvertalenttradetribute
2.3.6 FOODagriculturefeastingmeatwine
2.3.7 ENGINEERINGbridgescanalsharbors
2.3.8 ARTarchitecture (temples)monumentalitysculpturevessels (drinking)
2.4 GODS AND THE DIVINE
altars
apparitions
curses
festivals
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