Truth and authority in Herodotus’ narrative: false stories and true stories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. I. Narrator
5. Ὁμηρικώτατος? Battle Narratives in Herodotus 3
6. Herodotus the story-teller 25
7. Justifying Violence in Herodotus’ Histories 3.38: Nomos, King of All, and Pindaric Poetics 37
8. Sophocles’ Oedipus and Herodotus’ Periander 59
9. Time, Thy Pyramids: The Novella of Mycerinus (Herodotus 2.129–134) 77
10. Herodotus on queens and courtesans of Egypt 109
11. II. Scientist
12. Herodotus mapping out his genre: the interaction of myth and geography in the Libyan logos 125
13. Herodotus the geographer 139
14. Herodotus as a literary critic 157
15. Herodotus on Health and Disease 175
16. III. Historian
17. Causes in competition: Herodotus and Hippocratics 199
18. ἱστορέειν and θωμάζειν: scientific terms and signs of unity in Herodotus’ Histories 223
19. Χρυσός, χρόνος, and κλέος: objects of gold, cognition, ambiguity, and authority in Herodotus’ Lydian logos 243
20. Truth and authority in Herodotus’ narrative: false stories and true stories 265
21. List of Contributors 285
22. Bibliography 289
23. Index Locorum 317
24. Index of names and subjects 334