Reading Herodotus
Subtitle: a guided tour through the wild boars, dancing suitors, and crazy tyrants of the History
By: Debra Hamel
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781421406558; 9781421406565; 9781421407159
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How to destroy a mighty empire: the story of Croesus of Lydia; title: Cannibals and conquests: the story of Cyrus the Great; title: Horny goats and medicinal urine: the Egyptian logos; title: Madness and mummies: the reign of Cambyses; title: Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Mediterranean: the stories of Polycrates and Periander; title: Earless imposters and randy mounts: the early reign of Darius the Great; title: The trouble with nomads: Darius' Scythian campaign; title: Stuttering colonists and lousy deaths: the Libyan logos; title: Tattooed slaves and ousted tyrants: post-Pisistratid Athens and the Ionian revolt; title: Miltiades, madness, and Marathon: the first Persian War; title: Feats of engineering and doomed valor: the Second Persian War to the Battle of Thermopylae; title: Trial by trireme: the Battles at Artemisium and Salamis; title: Concluding scenes: the Battles of Plataea and Mycale and the siege of Sestus