Herodotus

The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books

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ID19916481
AuthorsHerodotus Herodotus (corresponding author)
EditorsReginald Walter Macan
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-17
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueHerodotus : the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books : Volume 1, Part 2, Books VIII and IX (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511707469
OpenAlexW4254828359
Open LibraryOL29070377M
ISBN9780511707469
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, the classical scholar Reginald Walter Macan (1848–1941) published in 1908 this two-volume edition (in three parts) of the last books of Herodotus, which cover the Greco-Persian Wars during the period 486 to 479 BCE. Part 2 of Volume 1 contains the text of Books 8 and 9 in Greek, with commentary and scholarly apparatus. Book 8 covers the Greek naval retreat after Thermopylae and the evacuation of Athens. Book 9 recounts such events as the Battle of Plataea, the Athenian blockade of Sestos and the Persian defeat in Ionia. Macan's edition, particularly valuable for its introduction, commentary, maps and extensive indexes, remains valuable to scholars of the history of textual criticism and the historiography of the classical world

Ancient history · Archaeology · Battle · Historiography · Ninth · Persian · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Philosophy

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