Greek set book: Recommended Editions and Translations
Texts and editions
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Oxford Classical Text, by C. Hude, Herodoti Historiae (3rd ed., Oxford 1927).
Loeb, vol. iv: Books 8-9, with English translation by A. D. Godley (1925).
Texts with commentaries
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Bowie, A.M. Herodotus’ Histories, Book VIII (Cambridge 2007).
Flower, M.A. & Marincola, J. Herodotus’ Histories, Book IX (Cambridge 2002).
How, W.W. & Wells, J. A Commentary on Herodotus. Volume II. Books V-IX
(Oxford 1912).
Macan, R.W. Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books (2 vols. in 3, London
1908; repr. in 2 vols, New York 1979).
Powell, E.J. Herodotus. Book VIII (1939, repr. in 1982 by Bristol Classical Press).
The commentaries by Bowie and Flower/Marincola will be essential to the course.
Translations
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Except for the Loeb edition, itemized translation is offered selectively by the Bowie
and Flower/Marincola commentaries.
Herodotus: The Histories, in the Oxford World’s Classics edition (1998), trans. R.
Waterfield, with introduction and notes by Carolyn Dewald.
Herodotus: The Histories, trans. A. de Selincourt (1954, revised edition of 1996, with
introduction and notes by John Marincola).
The 1997 Everyman’s Library edition uses George Rawlinson’s translation (first
published 1858–1860), as revised and updated with an introduction by Rosalind
Thomas.
David Grene’s translation of 1987 (it includes footnote comments and maps,
University of Chicago Press).
R.B. Strassler (ed.) 2007 The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories. A new translation
by A.L. Purvis and introduction by Rosalind Thomas. (It also contains twenty-one
appendices on various topics, an index, a glossary of terms and a short bibliography).
Starting-points
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J. Gould’s entry ‘Herodotus’, in OCD3 [S. Hornblower & A. Spawforth (1996)
Oxford Classical Dictionary3 ].
Gould, J. (1989) Herodotus. Bristol.
C. Dewald’s introduction, in R. Waterfield’s translation (see above).
R. Thomas’ introduction, in R.B. Strassler’s 2007 edition (see above).
More reading: a selection
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Fornara, C. (1971) Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay. Oxford.
Gould, J. (1994) ‘Herodotus and Religion’, in S. Hornblower, Greek Historiography.
Oxford.
Hornblower, S. (2005) ‘Herodotus’, in A. and J. Kuper (eds.) The Social Science
Encyclopedia, pp. 448-51.
Redfield, J. (1985) ‘Herodotus the Tourist’, Classical Philology 80: 97-118.
Momigliano, A. (1958) ‘The Place of Herodotus in the History of Historiography’,
History 43: 1-13 (reprinted in his Studies in Historiography, London, 1966, 127-42).
Hartog, F. (1988) The Mirror of Herodotus. The Representation of the Other in the
Writing of History, trans. by Janet Lloyd. London.
Harrison, T. (2000) Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus. Oxford.
Thomas, R. (2000) Herodotus in Context. Ethnography, Science and the Art of
Persuasion. Cambridge.
Munson, R. V. (2001) Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the
Work of Herodotus. Michigan.
Baragwanath, E. (2008) Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus. Oxford.
Collective volumes
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Bakker, E., de Jong, H., and van Wees, H. (eds.) (2002) Brill’s Companion to
Herodotus. Leiden.
Dewald, C. & Marincola, J. (eds.) (2006) The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus.
Cambridge.
Derow, P. & Parker, R. (eds.) (2003) Herodotus and His World. Oxford.
Luraghi, N. (ed.) (2001) The Historian’s Craft in the Age of Herodotus. Oxford.
Historical discussions of the period and the events
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Osborne, R. (1996) Greece in the Making 1220-479 BC, pp. 318-43.
Cawkwell, G. (2005) The Greek Wars. The Failure of Persia. Oxford, pp. 87-125 (a
sceptical outlook towards Herodotus’ historical interpretation of the Persian failure in
Greece).
Murray, O. (19932) Early Greece. Glasgow, pp. 288-301.
Chs 10 (N.G.L. Hammond ‘The Expedition of Xerxes’,) and 11 (J.P. Barron ‘The
liberation of Greece’) from CAH iv2 [= Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 4, sec. ed.],
pp. 518-622.