HERODOTUS: THE SEVENTH, EIGHTH, AND NINTH BOOKS With Introduction, Text, Apparatus, Commentary, Appendices, Indices, Maps. Volume 2

Herodotus; Reginald Walter Macan (Ed. )

ISBN 10: 1108009700 / ISBN 13: 9781108009706

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Very faint shelfwear. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1908 ed. ; Cambridge Library Collection - Classics; Vol. 2; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 462 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HERODOTUS: THE SEVENTH, EIGHTH, AND NINTH BOOKS With Introduction, Text, Apparatus, Commentary, Appendices, Indices, Maps. Volume 2
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108009700
• ISBN 13: 9781108009706
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 1.37 pounds
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Synopsis

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. Volume 2 contains appendices, indexes and maps pertinent to Books 7–9. Macan includes essays on supporting authorities, hypotheses on lost witnesses, and textual evidence presented by poets such as Pindar and the philosophers Plato and Aristotle. He also examines the events in the last books of The Histories, outlining the preparations of the Persians and Greeks for war, as well as reviewing the conflict's strategic aspects as it shifted from Thessaly through to Plataea and Sestos. Macan's edition remains valuable to scholars of the history of textual criticism and the historiography of the classical world.

Book Description

Reginald Walter Macan (1848-1941) published this three-part edition of the last books of Herodotus in 1908. Particularly valuable for its introduction, commentary, maps, appendices and indexes, it remains relevant in classical historiography. Volume 2 contains the supplementary material.