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A Guide to Reading Herodotus' HistoriesModern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our Ur historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. Our readings can bring out various guises of Herodotus himself: an author with

αρχίζοντας έναν μεγάλο περίπατο

the Academy

scholars during the Middle Ages and into the modern era derided it as a piece of fiction

δεν υπάρχει και στην κοινωνία αυτοτελές και ανεξάρτητο διήγημα

a younger contemporary

Roman lawyer

It goes on to trace the evolution of temples and other religious buildings

mood and imperative forms

many of these being otherwise difficult for students to access

Book XXII recounts the climax of the Iliad: the fatal encounter between the main defender of Troy and the greatest warrior of the Greeks

It remains the standard middle school Grek manual

by considering the poet's use of formulae