Interpreting Herodotus (PDF)

Thomas Harrison is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, where his research interests include Herodotus, the Achaemenid Persian empire, the Greek relationship with the non-Greek world, and the reception of these themes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship. His publications include Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus (Oxford, 2000), The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the History of the
Fifth Century (London, 2000), and Writing Ancient Persia (London, 2011), as well as the edited volumes Polybius and his World: Essays in Memory of F. W. Walbank (Oxford, 2013; with Bruce Gibson) and Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, forthcoming; with Joseph Skinner). He is currently working on a study
of the role of belief in Greek religion.

Elizabeth Irwin is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the author of Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation (Cambridge, 2005) and the co-editor of two volumes on Herodotus: Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories (Cambridge, 2007; with Emily Greenwood) and Herodots Wege des Erzählens (Frankfurt am Main, 2013; with Klaus Geus and Thomas Poiss); she has also written numerous
articles on Herodotus and Thucydides and is currently finishing a book on the relationship of Herodotus' Histories to the Atheno-Peloponnesian War and to Thucydides' account of it. Her current research is centred on medical discourse and ethical debates of the later fifth century, political and historical readings of Greek lyric and Athenian
drama, Prodicus, Plato, and the reception of Athenian arche in Greek imperial literature.

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