The Composition of the History of Herodotus

Brill's Companion to Herodotus

“…174-6. Similar analyses are of course appropriate for the over-confidence, failure to take advice, aggressive acts, invasions, boundary-crossings, treacheries, and cruelties of other kings, especially Cyrus and Darius: see various accounts, e.g., for Cyrus, Lattimore (1939) 29, Immerwahr (1966) 165-7, Waters (1971, 51 -2, Avery (1972), Flory (1987) 95-6, Raaflaub (1987) 244-5, Payen (1991), Fisher (1992) 352-7, Pelling (1996; for Darius, Immerwahr (1966) 169-76, Waters (1971) 58-64, Lateiner (1984 260, Hartog (1988) 32-9, Fisher (1992 On the significance of this emphasis on Persian admission of their committing of injustice in the pursuit of empire (with the possibility of implications for fifthcentury Athenian imperialism), see e.g., Pohlenz (1937) 121-35, Raaflaub (1987 228-9, 241-2. recognize human limits, but there remain many disagreements on the appropriate use of Greek terms to describe them, on whether the focus is on the King's individual faults or on broader cultural traditions, and on the role Herodotus attributes to the divine.…”

“…4 in this volume. 9 Jacoby (1913); How and Wells (1928) I: 9-15, 447-8;von Fritz (1936); Pohlenz (1937); Powell (1939); Myres (1953) 20-31;Lattimore (1958); Fornara (l97Ia) 1-23;75-91;Marincola (1999). 10 How and Wells (1928) I: 6; Thuc.…”

“…5 emphasizes disunity as the motif that binds the Greek accounts together; see 187-8 on excess of unity as the 'basic condition of Persian greatness that also causes their downfall'; see further Konstan (1987). 76 E.g., 4.83;7.10;see Bischoff (1932); Lattimore (1939); Shapiro (forthcoming); Said, this volume (Ch. 6).…”

“…78 See esp. Stahl (1975), Raaflaub (1987) 241 -4, Fisher (1992 On this Herodotean role, Bischoff (1932), Lattimore (1939), Dewald (1985) 52-3, Raaflaub (1987 242. 80 On this idea elsewhere, cf.…”

“…Croesus' reaction to the advice he receives from oracles (1.53-6) and dreams (1.107-8) involve the same functional event. Triplication is ' 5 This is a well-recognized pattern: Dewald (1987) 20: on Bischoff (1932), Lattimore (1939).…”