Critics of Herodotus have generally shown an unease in the face of the religious passages
of the Histories, a sense that he'lets himself down'by delving into matters irrelevant to the …

Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts-not merely historians
(especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches …

History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a
single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 bce) …

INEVITABLY, there is a lag between the completion of a manuscript and its appearance in
print. Although Princeton University Press has been admi rably prompt, while Herodotus …

Land consumption and climate change have intensified natural disasters in urban areas. In
response to these emergencies under the European 2030 Agenda, Sustainable …

The Battle of Salamis was the first great (and unexpected) victory of the Greeks over the
Persian forces under Xerxes, whose defeat had important consequences for the subsequent …

This book is a study of the historical value of Aeschylus' play, the Persians: its value both for
the history of events and for Athens''ideological history', its worth as a source both of the …

This article re-evaluates the significance attributed to Hecataeus' encounter with the Theban
priests described by Herodotus (2.143) by setting it against the evidence of Late Period …

Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's
myth in archaic and classical Greece. It is a systematic study of the representations of the …

Fifth century Athenians were expecially hostile to tyrants and tyranny as a result of
Peisistratid treachery during the Persian Wars. Their hostility engendered a persistent …