Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books 2 Volume Set in 3 Paperback Pieces
Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books 2 Volume Set in 3 Paperback Pieces
Reginald Walter Macan
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inc GSTFellow and Master of University College, Oxford, the classical scholar Reginald Walter Macan (1848–1941) published in 1908 this two-volume edition (in three parts) of the last books of Herodotus, which cover the Greco-Persian Wars during the period 486 to 479 BCE. Part 1 of Volume 1 contains an extensive introduction, addressing the characteristics of each book, followed by the text of Book 7 in Greek, with commentary and scholarly apparatus. Part 2 of Volume 1 contains the text of Books 8 and 9, and Volume 2 contains appendices, indexes and maps. Macan also includes essays on supporting authorities, hypotheses on lost witnesses, and textual evidence presented by poets such as Pindar and the philosophers Plato and Aristotle. Macan's edition remains valuable to scholars of the history of textual criticism and the historiography of the classical world.
Product details
August 2013Multiple copy pack
9781108009812
1442 pages
215 × 138 × 83 mm
1.87kg
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Table of Contents
- Volume 1, Part 1: Preface
- Introduction
- Note on the text
- Polymnia. Volume 1, Part 2:
- 1. Ourania
- 2. Kalliope. Volume 2: Appendices:
- 1. Authorities and evidences, other than Herodotus, for the history of the Persian war
- 2. The Persian preparations
- 3. The preparations of the Greeks
- 4. General strategic aspects of the war
- 5. Artemision–Thermopylai
- 6. Salamis
- 7. From Salamis to Sestos
- 8. Plataia
- 9. The chronology of the war
- Indices.
