Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond

455 Pages·2016·1.93 MB·English

by  Jessica Priestley

BRILL’S COMPANION TO
R E C E P T I O N
THE
H E R O D O T U S
OF
A N T I Q U I T Y
IN
B E Y O N D
AND
Edited by
Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali
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Brill’s Companion to the
Reception of Herodotus in
Antiquity and Beyond
Edited by
Jessica Priestley
Vasiliki Zali
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Title: Brill’s companion to the reception of Herodotus in antiquity and
 beyond / edited by Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016. | Series: Brill’s companions to
 classical reception, ISSN 2213-1426 ; v. 6 | Includes bibliographical
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Contents
Acknowledgements xi
Notes on Editors and Contributors xiii
Introduction 1
Jessica Priestley & Vasiliki Zali
PART 1
“Father of History”
1 Herodotus in Thucydides: A Hypothesis 17
Marek Wecowski
2 Herodotus and His Successors: The Rhetoric of the Persian Wars in
Thucydides and Xenophon 34
Vasiliki Zali
3 Duris of Samos and a Herodotean Model for Writing History 59
Christopher A. Baron
4 “This is What Herodotus Relates”: The Presence of Herodotus’ Histories
in Josephus’ Writings 83
Eran Almagor
5 History without Malice: Plutarch Rewrites the Battle of Plataea 101
John Marincola
6 Herodotus in Renaissance France 120
Benjamin Earley
7 The Anti-Thucydides: Herodotus and the Development of Modern
Historiography 143
Neville Morley
viii contents
PART 2
Language, Translation and Scholarship
8 Herodotus’ Reception in Ancient Greek Lexicography and Grammar:
From the Hellenistic to the Imperial Age 169
Olga Tribulato
9 Herodotus’ Reputation in Latin Literature from Cicero to the
12th Century 193
Félix Racine
10 Valla’s Herodotean Labours: Towards a New View of Herodotus in the
Italian Renaissance 213
Adam Foley
11 Herodotus and Narrative Art in Renaissance Ferrara: The Translation
of Matteo Maria Boiardo 232
Dennis Looney
12 The ‘Rediscovery’ of Egypt: Herodotus and His Account of Egypt in
the Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute-Égypte (1802) by Vivant
Denon 254
Andreas Schwab
13 Not beyond Herodotus? Psammetichus’ Experiment and Modern
Thought about Language 278
Benjamin Eldon Stevens
PART 3
New Narratives and Genres
14 Herodotus (and Ctesias) Re-enacted: Leadership in Xenophon’s
Cyropaedia 301
Vivienne Gray
15 Pausanias and the Footsteps of Herodotus 322
Greta Hawes
contents ix
16 Ryszard Kapuściński’s Travels with Herodotus: Reportage
from the Self 346
Kinga Kosmala
17 Herodotus in Fiction: Gore Vidal’s Creation 367
Heather Neilson
Bibliography 389
Index 433