HERODOTUS: HISTORIES BOOK IX (CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS) by Herodotus
ISBN: "9780521596503
Cambridge University Press, 20 January 2003
Paperback 376 pages
Book IX of Herodotus' Histories is the conclusive climax to his work, as the victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable Greek victory over Persia. This English commentary treats Herodotus' work as historical narrative and as literature, incorporating the results of recent scholarly research in Greek history and historiography. It contains a Greek text and detailed philological, literary, and historical notes designed to assist the intermediate Greek student.
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Commentary providing a Greek text with detailed philological, literary, and historical notes.
About the Author
Michael A. Flower is Professor of Classics at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Theopompus of Chios: History and Rhetoric in the Fourth Century BC (HB 1994: ISBN 0198140797; PB 1997: ISBN 0198152434).
John Marincola is Associate Professor of Classics at New York University. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (1997; ISBN 0521 480191).