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Page 1589 of 1927

  • Commentary

  • 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 93-311

  • Summary

    Thrace and the Paionians

    At first sight, the opening chs. of bk. 5 ‘belong’ more with bk. 4 than with the Ionian revolt narrative which follows: cf. Hdt. 4.80.2 (confrontation between Sitalkes, son of the Thracian king Teres, and Oktamasades, brother of Skyles of Skythia and son of Teres’ daughter). This part of the world was topical at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War (431–29 bc), when Hdt. was still active: Th. 2.29, 95–7, 4.105.1 and 7.29.4. In addition to Th., another possible literary intertext is the undatable Pindar Paian 2, for the Abderites; this exploited the verbal similarity ‘paian’ /‘Paionians’ in a way comparable to Hdt., see below. (Radt 1958: 60, cf. 14f.; Rutherford 2001: 43f., 116, 270f.; Archibald 1998: 86 n. 36).

    But there are also important pointers forward to the Ionian revolt narrative proper (which begins only at 28.1): earlier relations between Dareios and Histiaios (11.1), and the first suggestion that the conflict is a freedom fight (2.1). Immerwahr 1966: 110–11 sees the whole section 4.143–4 and 5.1–27 as a link between the Skythian campaign and the Ionian revolt.

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