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  • Introduction

  • Herodotus
  • Edited by Simon Hornblower, All Souls College, Oxford
  • Book:
    Herodotus: Histories Book V
    Published online:
    16 October 2018
    Print publication:
    12 December 2013, pp 1-48

  • Summary

    (a) Book divisions

    Bks. 5 and 6 of Hdt., which contain the narratives of the Ionian revolt and the Marathon campaign, are central to the Histories. The present section will, after some remarks about book divisions, discuss the structure of bks. 5 and 6, both internally and in relation to the Histories as a whole.

    The first requirement is to think away the conventional book divisions altogether; such divisions seem generally to be a fourth-century innovation. There is no good reason to think that Herodotus divided his own work into nine books (unlike, say, Polybius, he does not use them himself to cross-refer or rather back-refer). The Herodotean division is probably Alexandrian i.e. Hellenistic, perhaps third or fourth century bc. We must distinguish two questions: who first says that Hdt.'s work was in nine books, and who first cited him by book number.

    The ‘chronographic’ source of Diodorus, which provided him with some good-quality historiographic and poetic dates, as well as king lists and dates of city-foundations and mergers (synoikisms), tells us that Hdt.’s work was in nine books.4 Diodorus himself wrote in the time of Julius Caesar or the early years of Augustus’ principate, but the chronographer worked in perhaps the second century bc, the time of Apollodoros the Chronicler (FGrHist 244). Apollodoros is, however, an unlikely candidate himself, as is Kastor of Rhodes (FGrHist 250), whose chronicle ended with Pompey’s triumph in 61 bc. It is better to leave the Diodoran chronographer without a name.

  • Preface

  • Herodotus
  • Edited by Simon Hornblower, All Souls College, Oxford
  • Book:
    Herodotus: Histories Book V
    Published online:
    16 October 2018
    Print publication:
    12 December 2013, pp vii-viii

  • Summary

    This single-authored volume is planned as one of a pair with an edition of and commentary on bk. 6 in the same series, by the present author and Christopher Pelling in collaboration. Some sections of the Introduction to the present volume concern bk. 5 only; some concern both books; and some topics common to both books (Hdt. and Homer; Hdt.'s handling of Kleomenes and of Aigina) will be covered in the Introduction to bk. 6. Chronology will be covered in both volumes; for the distribution, see the Introduction, 3. For what is known or can be plausibly inferred about Herodotus’ life and travels, see S. West in Bowie 2007: 127–130.

    The groundwork for the commentary on book 5 was done as part of graduate (MA) teaching at University College London (UCL). In 2008–9, I taught books 5 and 7 jointly with Professor C. Carey, and in 2009–10, my last academic year at UCL, I taught books 5 and 6 on my own. I am grateful to Chris Carey for many insights and much shared enjoyment, and to all the students for their stimulating contributions.

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Rome's World
  • The Peutinger Map Reconsidered
  • Richard J. A. Talbert
  • Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    16 August 2010
  • The Peutinger Map is the only map of the Roman world to come down to us from antiquity. Today it is among the treasures of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Richard Talbert's study presented in Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered offers a long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the map as a masterpiece of both mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology. Here, the ancient world's traditional span, from the Atlantic to India, is dramatically remolded; lands and routes take pride of place, whereas seas are compressed. Talbert posits that the map's true purpose was not to assist travelers along Rome's highways, but rather to celebrate the restoration of peace and order by Diocletian's Tetrarchy. Such creative cartography, he shows, influenced the development of medieval mapmaking. With the aid of digital technology, this book enables readers to engage with the Peutinger Map in all of its fascinating immensity more closely than ever before.

Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome
  • Spencer Cole
  • Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    09 January 2014
  • This book tells a part of the back-story to major religious transformations emerging from the tumult of the late Republic. It considers the dynamic interplay of Cicero's approximations of mortals and immortals with a range of artifacts and activities that were collectively closing the divide between humans and gods. A guiding principle is that a major cultural player like Cicero had a normative function in religious dialogues that could legitimize incipient ideas like deification. Applying contemporary metaphor theory, it analyzes the strategies and priorities configuring Cicero's divinizing encomia of Roman dynasts like Pompey, Caesar and Octavian. It also examines Cicero's explorations of apotheosis and immortality in the De re publica and Tusculan Disputations as well as his attempts to deify his daughter Tullia. In this book, Professor Cole transforms our understanding not only of the backgrounds to ruler worship but also of changing conceptions of death and the afterlife.

Redefining Ancient Orphism
  • A Study in Greek Religion
  • Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
  • Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    07 November 2013
  • This book examines the fragmentary and contradictory evidence for Orpheus as the author of rites and poems to redefine Orphism as a label applied polemically to extra-ordinary religious phenomena. Replacing older models of an Orphic religion, this richer and more complex model provides insight into the boundaries of normal and abnormal Greek religion. The study traces the construction of the category of 'Orphic' from its first appearances in the Classical period, through the centuries of philosophical and religious polemics, especially in the formation of early Christianity and again in the debates over the origins of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A paradigm shift in the study of Greek religion, this study provides scholars of classics, early Christianity, ancient religion and philosophy with a new model for understanding the nature of ancient Orphism, including ideas of afterlife, cosmogony, sacred scriptures, rituals of purification and initiation, and exotic mythology.

Themistius, Julian, and Greek Political Theory under Rome
  • Texts, Translations, and Studies of Four Key Works
  • Simon Swain
  • Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    28 November 2013
  • Themistius' close relationship with Christian emperors from Constantius to Theodosius makes him one of the most important political thinkers and politicians of the later fourth century, and his dealings with Julian the Apostate have recently attracted much speculation. This volume presents a new critical edition, translation and analysis of Themistius' letter to Julian about kingship and government, which survives mainly in Arabic, together with texts, translations and analyses of Julian's Letter to Themistius and Sopater's Letter to Himerius. The volume is completed with a text, translation and analysis of the other genuine work of Greek political theory to survive in Arabic, the Letter of Aristotle to Alexander, which dates from an earlier period and throws into relief the particular concerns of Themistius, Julian, and the rulers of the fourth-century Roman world.

Rabbis, Language and Translation in Late Antiquity
  • Willem F. Smelik
  • Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    31 October 2013
  • Exposed to multiple languages as a result of annexation, migration, pilgrimage and its position on key trade routes, the Roman Palestine of Late Antiquity was a border area where Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic dialects were all in common use. This study analyses the way scriptural translation was perceived and practised by the rabbinic movement in this multilingual world. Drawing on a wide range of classical rabbinic sources, including unused manuscript materials, Willem F. Smelik traces developments in rabbinic thought and argues that foreign languages were deemed highly valuable for the lexical and semantic light they shed on the meanings of lexemes in the holy tongue. Key themes, such as the reception of translations of the Hebrew Scriptures, multilingualism in society, and rabbinic rules for translation, are discussed at length. This book will be invaluable for students of ancient Judaism, rabbinic studies, Old Testament studies, early Christianity and translation studies.

Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia
  • Naoíse Mac Sweeney
  • Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    21 November 2013
  • This book examines foundation myths told about the Ionian cities during the archaic and classical periods. It uses these myths to explore the complex and changing ways in which civic identity was constructed in Ionia, relating this to the wider discourses about ethnicity and cultural difference that were current in the Greek world at this time. The Ionian cities seem to have rejected oppositional models of cultural difference which set in contrast East and West, Europe and Asia, Greek and Barbarian, opting instead for a more fluid and nuanced perspective on ethnic and cultural distinctions. The conclusions of this book have far-reaching implications for our understanding of Ionia, but also challenge current models of Greek ethnicity and identity, suggesting that there was a more diverse conception of Greekness in antiquity than has often been assumed.

The Hellenistic West
  • Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean
  • Edited by Jonathan R. W. Prag, Josephine Crawley Quinn
  • Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    24 October 2013
  • Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the 'Hellenistic world'; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the 'Greek East' and the 'Roman West' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek history than a reflection of the Hellenistic-period Mediterranean, which was a strongly interconnected cultural and economic zone, with the rising Roman republic just one among many powers in the region, east and west. The contributors argue for a dynamic reading of the economy, politics and history of the central and western Mediterranean beyond Rome, and in doing so problematise the concepts of 'East', 'West' and 'Hellenistic' itself.

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