Ancient History & Civilisation

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Texts and Commentaries

Asheri, D., Erodoto, Le Storie: Libro I, La Lidia e la Persia (Milan, 1989–93).

—— Erodoto, Le Storie: Libro III, La Persia (Milan, 1991).

Corcella, A., Erodoto, Le Storie: Libro IV, La Scizia e la Libia (Milan, 1993).

How, W. W., and Wells, J., A Commentary on Herodotus, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1913; repr. with corrections, 1928) = H & W.

Hude, C., Herodoti Historiae, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1927).

Legrand, Ph.-E., Hérodote: Histoires, II vols. (Paris, 1945–56).

Lloyd, A. B., Herodotus: Book II, 3 vols. (Leiden, 1975–88).

Macan, R., Herodotus: The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Books, 2 vols. (London, 1895; repr. New York, 1973).

—— Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books, 2 vols. (London, 1908; repr. New York, 1973).

Nenci, G., Erodoto. Le Storie: Libro V, La rivolta della Ionia (Milan, 1995).

Bibliographic Surveys

Bergson, L., ‘Herodotus 1937–1960’, Lustrum, 11 (1966), 71–138.

Bubel, F., Herodot-Bibliographie 1980–88 (Hildesheim, 1991).

Dewald, C., and Marincola, J., ‘A Selective Introduction to Herodotean Studies’, Arethusa, 20 (1987), 9–40.

Hampl, F., ‘Herodot: Ein kritischer Forschungsbericht nach methodischen Geschichtspunkten’, Grazer Beiträge, 4 (1975), 97–136.

Lachenaud, G., ‘Les Études hérodotéennes de l’avant guerre à nos jours’, in Storia della Storiografia, 7 (1985), 6–27.

MacKendrick, P., ‘Herodotus, 1954–1963’, CW 56 (1963), 269–75.

—— ‘Herodotus, 1963–1969’, CW 63 (1969), 37–44.

Verdin, H., ‘Hérodote historien? Quelques interprétations récentes’ Ant. Class. 44 (1975), 668–85.

General Studies

Boedeker, D. (ed.), Herodotus and the Invention of History, Arethusa, 20 (1987).

—— (ed.), The New Simonides, Arethusa, 29 (1996).

Burn, A.R., Persia and the Greeks (London, 1962; repr. with a postscript by D. M. Lewis, Stanford, Calif., 1984).

Cambridge Ancient History, vol. iii, pt. 1, The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean World, Tenth to Eighth Centuries B.C., ed. J. Boardman, I. Edwards, N. Hammond, and E. Sollberger (Cambridge, 1982) = CAH iii/1.

—— vol. iii, pt. 2, The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C., ed. J. Boardman, I. Edwards, N. Hammond, E. Sollberger, and C. Walker (Cambridge, 1991) = CAH iii/2.

—— vol. iii, pt. 3, The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C., ed. J. Boardman and N. Hammond (Cambridge, 1982) = CAH iii/3.

—— vol. iv, Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean c.525 to 479 B.C., ed. J. Boardman, N. Hammond, D. Lewis, and M. Ostwald (Cambridge, 1998) = CAH iv.

—— vol. v, The Fifth Century B.C., ed. D. Lewis, J. Boardman, J. Davies, and M. Ostwald (Cambridge, 1992) = CAH v.

Cartledge, P., The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others (Oxford and New York, 1993).

Cook, J. M., The Persian Empire (London, 1987).

Drews, R., The Greek Accounts of Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass., 1973).

Evans, J. A. S., Herodotus: Explorer of the Past. Three Essays (Princeton, 1991).

Fehling, D., Herodotus and his ‘Sources’ (Leeds, 1989).

Flory, S., The Archaic Smile of Herodotus (Detroit, 1987).

Fornara, C., Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay (Oxford, 1971).

—— (ed. and trans.), Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War, 2nd edn. (Cambridge, 1983) = Fornara.

Gould, J., Herodotus (London, 1989).

Grimal, N., A History of Ancient Egypt (Oxford, 1992).

Hartog, F., The Mirror of Herodotus (Berkeley and London, 1988).

Immerwahr, H., Form and Thought in Herodotus (Cleveland, 1966).

Jacoby, F., ‘Herodot’, in Realenkyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, Suppl. ii (1913), 205–520.

—— Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, i2 (Leiden, 1957) = FGH.

Kuhrt, A., The Ancient Near East (c.3000–330 BC), 2 vols. (London, 1995).

Lateiner, D., The Historical Method of Herodotus (Toronto, 1989).

Lazenby, J. F., The Defence of Greece 490–479 BC (Warminster, 1993).

Meiggs, R., and Lewis, D. (eds.), A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century B.C. (Oxford, 1969) = M–L.

Momigliano, A., ‘The Place of Herodotus in the History of Historiography’, in Studies in Historiography (London, 1966), 127–42 (repr. from History, 43 (1958), 1–13).

Pearson, L., Plutarch’s Moralia, xi: On the Malice of Herodotus (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1965).

Pritchett, W. K., Studies in Ancient Greek Topography, i (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1965).

—— Studies in Ancient Greek Topography, v (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1985).

—— The Liar School of Herodotus (Amsterdam, 1993).

Rolle, R., The World of the Scythians (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1989).

Sasson, J. (ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, 4 vols. (New York, 1995).

Strasburger, G., Lexikon zur frühgriechischen Geschichte, auf der Grundlage von Herodots Werk verfasst (Zurich and Munich, 1984).

Strasburger, H., Homer und die Geschichtsschreibung, Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jahrgang 1972/1 (Heidelberg, 1972).

West, M., Greek Lyric Poetry (Oxford and New York, 1994).

West, S., ‘Herodotus’ Epigraphical Interests’, CQ 35 (1985), 278–305.

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