General Index
abasanistōs
33–34 and n124
accuracy
10, 45
akribeia in Thuc.
89, 91, 92
atrekeia, -ēs in Hdt.
10, 49n11, 92n25
Acusilaus
30
Aethiopis, continuation of Iliad
106
aklea and Hdt.’s proem
48–49, 52–53
akroasis see performance, of historical texts
Alcmaeon of Croton
19
Alexander the Great, and Plutarch
115
Anaximander
10
antiquarianism. see archaiologia
archaiologia
38–39
earliest use of term in Plato Hp.Ma.
38–39
Archilochus, and Gyges
4
Aristotle, on Herodotus
8–9
Artaxerxes
21n75, 78
letters of, in Thuc.
6n13, 45
Asheri, David, and Ionia as fascia intermedia
19 and n69, 77
Athenians
and poor knowledge of Pisistratids
33, 95
and Tegeans, arguing about battle line at Plataea
31–32
Atthidography, atthidographers
27, 39
Attiginus, feast of
47, 74–75
‘barbarians’, and Greeks
7, 48–49, 52, 57, 58, 61, 63, 65–66, 75 and n105, 85, 93, 97
Berossus
61n60
Busiris, and Heracles
69n85
Callias, Peace of, absent from Thuc.
95 and n32
Cambyses
47
story of, like that of Cleomenes in Hdt.
59
Candaules, king of Lydia (in Hdt.)
74
Charon of Lampsacus
35
chronology/chronological structure
22–23, 25, 27n101, 36–37, 71–72, 105, 107
Cimmerians
65
cities, great and small
65, 66, 101, 110
Cleomenes, story of like that of Cambyses in Hdt.
59
counter-factual history, in Hdt.
75–76
Creuzer, G.F.
113
Croesus, in Hdt.
and conquest of Asiatic Greeks
64–65, 75
initiator of ‘wrongs’ (adika) against Greeks
61–62, 63, 66
and Solon
73–74
and start of Hdt.’s History
64–65, 67, 75
Ctesias of Cnidus, compared with Hdt.
77–80
and Greek novel
80
curation of past
1, 2–3, 8, 26–27, 34, 36, 40, 47, 63, 70, 84, 88, 91, 97, 103, 109
in art
34–35n126
Cyrus the Great
60, 74
and end of Hdt.’s History
47
Damastes of Sigeion
35
Darius I
and Bisitun
21–22
and message to Myrkinos
20–21
Darius II, and treaty with Athens absent from Thuc.
98
Decelea
100
[Demetrius], and F 1 of Hecataeus
13
De Sanctis, Gaetano
41n149, 42n158
Dieitrephes, Athenian general
100
Diomedes, his ergon in Iliad
50
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
on early historians
35–36
and Xenophon
115
disembedded/externalized history/ historical consciousness
3, 8, 16–17, 21, 34, 36, 46, 63, 70, 88–89, 91, 102–103, 109
‘documentarity’, documentary mentality, in Hdt. and Thuc.
3, 11n38, 45, 54–55
Dodds, E.
68n83, 77n112
dynamis/power, in Thuc.
86–87, 94, 102–4, 110
Egypt, and Heracles
56–57
Herodotus’ conception of
23–24
Egyptian priests
22–23, 37
‘gift of the Nile’
23 and n83
kings of (pharaohs)
22, 48n4, 70, 71–72 and n97
and Menelaus and Helen
54
and Solon
60 and n59
embedded historical consciousness
2–3, 5, 27, 34, 36, 116–17
Empedocles, views of rebutted by author of VM
56–57
Ephorus, suspicious of detail regarding remote past
37n135
epi makrotaton
55–56 and n41
epichōrios logos
28, 34
epistolary form, Persian
3, 18–22, 47
ergon/a
in Hdt.
48–51
in Thuc.
90–91, 94, 96
in Xen.
110–11
exitēla, in Hdt.’s proem
52 and n25
fascia intermedia, of Ionia
19, 77
Fehling, Detlev
58n49, 59, 60n56
Focke, Friedrich
77
Fornara, C.
82n137
fossils, seashells
9, 24
François Vase, and embedded history
35n126
Gabba, E.
91n21, 93n28
Gadatas, Darius’ letter to
18n67
genealogy, genealogizing
22, 24–26, 38, 39
and argument
22, 26
Glaucus and Diomedes, genealogy and
25
‘Greeks’, in Hecataeus F
1, 2, 15–16 and n38
Gyges (Lydian king)
4, 64n70, 74
Harmodius and Aristogeiton
33n122, 88
Hecataeus of Miletus
2, 5, 10, 11–17
and authoritative statement
15, 20
cataloguing Darius’ empire, in Hdt.
19n69
and Egyptian priests
22–23
Egyptian version
56
and externalized history
16–17
opening text of his Genealogiai/Historiai (F 1)
13–17
and geography
10, 11–12
and logoi of the ‘Greeks’
2, 15–16 and n38, 47, 62
and legendary and historical
26
and name at start of his work
14
so-called rationalist view of
12–13 and n46, 26, 62
on Scythians
11n39
titles of works
11–12
Helen
37, 54, 57, 60, 61
Hellanicus of Lesbos
26, 35, 36–37
and precise dating of Trojan War
37, 38
Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, and completion of Thuc.’s history
106–7
Hellenistic historiography, and documents
43
Heracleidae, return of
31
Heracles
abandoned by Jason and his death
30
and Cerberus
12–13
and Egypt
56–57, 69
hero and/or god
56–57
and Leonidas
26
Heraclitus
19
Herodotus
akleā and kleos in
52–53
and bridging legendary and historical, problems with
26, 37, 38, 62–63, 72, 99–100
Athens as savior of Greece in
75–76
compared with Ctesias
77–80
correcting Hec.
11n39
and counter-factual history
75–76
and divine (the gods/god/divine thing) in
51, 66–77, 104, 113; as ‘master narrative’ of 75–77
division of human and divine
70–71
and Egyptian Heracles
56–57, 69–70
and Egyptian priests
54–55, 60, 70–71, 72n97
and Egyptian time
23–24, 71–72
uses Egyptian views to critique Greek
37, 54, 60, 70, 72n97
ethnic of, in proem (Halicarnassus or Thurii)
53–54n32
and erga
48–51; and ‘displaying’
deeds
49–51
and Feast of Attiginus
47
and geography
11n38
and Hec., their visits to Egypt
22–23
his history in ways Persian
47
and Homer
6–7, 37; ‘most Homeric’ 5
and inscriptions
40–41
and language difference
6n13
and Leonidas’ genealogy
25–26
local history and
6, 27–30
on Minos, contrasted with Thuc.
99
and moral view in his History
67
and murder of school children on Chios
104
and name at start of work
14
his narrative following line of Lydian/Persian kings
47
and Nile
11n38, 23–24, 55 and n40, 68, 69, 70
and non-Greek king lists
48
and overdetermination
77
on Peneius gorge as work of Poseidon/earthquake
73
Persian Wars, as catalyst for his history
47
possible Persian documents in
11n38, 45, 103
and problem of Heracles’ identity (god or hero?)
56–57
prefers Egyptian account of Trojan War over Greek
54–55
as ‘primary researcher’
56–57
proem of
48–57, 66
and ‘reporting what is said’ (legein ta legomena)
32 and n118
and ‘worthiness’ of being recorded in history
108–9
and Xerxes’ invasion route through northern Greece
28–30
Heropythus (Chios), inscriptional genealogy of
24, 25
Hesiod
4, 83
Ages of
72
and Catalogue of Women
25
and his encounter with Muses
14
with Homer, maker of Greek theogony
72
and names of rivers implying widespread local knowledge
30
Theogony and genealogical thinking
25
Hieronymus of Cardia
43
Hippias of Elis
35, 36
historical consciousness
2–3, 4–5, 8, 16–17, 27, 40, 46, 62, 80, 82, 88, 91, 103, 105, 106, 116
historiē, historeō
in Hdt.
52, 54–57
historiography, Greek
inscriptions, for most part surprisingly absent from early writers of
40–43
local
26–34
and judgment
3
and Old Testament views compared
80–82
why it developed
1, 8
history and legend, problem of
4, 9n23, 12–13, 23–24, 25–27, 29–31, 34, 38, 53, 62, 65, 72–73, 92–93, 103, 104
Homer
4, 83
and Achilles, Phoenix
48–49
and Catalogue of Ships
38
Cyclops and Laetrygonians, in Thuc.
63
Cypria not by Homer, according to Hdt.
58
Herodotus and Thucydides on
6–7, 37, 46
klea andrōn and Hdt.
48–49
Iliad a story of war
7; continued by
Aethiopis
106
language always Greek
6
and Meleager story
48–49
as source of other Greek literary genres
8
with Hesiod, maker of Greek theogony
72
treated as history
6
inquiry. see historiē
inscriptions, relative scarcity of in Hdt. and Thuc.
40–43
Ionia, as fascia intermedia between Greeks and Persians
19, 77
Jacoby, Felix
11n36, 16n57, 26–27, 35n127, 39n142, 77
King’s Peace
21n75, 106
Lade, Battle of
49–50n11, 104
lampron
50–51
legend/legendary, and history
4, 12, 13, 23, 25–27, 29, 62, 65, 68, 72, 83, 92–93, 98–100, 103, 104
Leonidas, in Hdt.
25–26, 41, 53
Lewis, David M.
19n69, 22, 36n131, 45
local history
26–34, 39n141, 88
Herodotus and
27–32
as ‘silos’ of information
31
logopoios
10, 22
Manetho
61n60, 72n97
Mantinea, Batte of
107
maps
11
Marathon, battle of
31
medicine/medical writing, and Greek historiography
9–10, 34, 56–57, 89 and n15, 92
Meleager story, in Iliad
48–49, 50
Menelaus, as informant for Egyptian priests
37, 54, 60, 72n97
metrical rhythms in Hdt. and Thuc.
54n32, 97 and n41
Miltiades, and Thucydides
26
Mimnermus
4
Min (pharaoh)
22, 71
Minos (legendary king of Crete)
39n141, 98–100
Momigliano, Arnaldo
5, 45, 80–82
Murray, Oswyn
45, 59n54
muse(s)
4, 14, 21
muthos
15–16, 36
vs logos
16
Mycalessus, in Thuc.
100–104, 110
Mycenae, in Thuc.
110
Netz, R.
84n1
novel, and history
80, 81, 113, 114
Oceanus (Greek god)
69
Old Testament, views of compared with Greek historiography
80–82
Momigliano
palai/palaia
32 and n118, 33, 35n128, 37n135, 49–50, 56, 61, 88, 98–99
Paris (Trojan hero)
7, 37
Pausanias (travel writer), and curation of past
34–35n126, 39n141
performance, of historical texts (akroasis)
39–40, 53–54, 91–92
Persians, in Hdt.’ s introduction
48, 57–58, 60 and n55, 61n63, 63
identify with Trojans
58, 61, 63–64
Persian language
6n13, 21n75
Phanodemus
39
Pherecydes of Athens
26, 30
Pheretime of Barca (in Hdt.)
74
Phlius (city in Xen. Hell.)
110
Phocylides
20
Phoenicians, and start of Hdt.’s History
48, 57–58, 60 and n55, 61n63, 63
Phrixus, descendants of at Halos
28–29
Pindar
25 nn.93 & 94, 69
Isthmian
7 a quasi-Theban
chronicle
34n126
Plataea, battle of
31
Plutarch, view of, compared with Xen.
115
Polybius, and documents
43–46; and outbreak of Second Punic War 44
Pomtow, H.R.
41n49
prose, Greek as instrument of historiography
9
Quintilian, on Xen.
116
ram, of Phrixus and Helle
13n46
Rhampsinitus, and descent to underworld
70
Royal Road, in Hdt.
11n38, 45
Saguntum, capture of, in Polybius
44
Sardis
66–67
satrapy list, in Hdt.
11n38, 45, 103
school children, murder of
101, 104
self-portraiture of historian, possibly negative (Hec. and Xen.)
22–23n81
Semiramis, and Ninus, in Ctesias
79–80
Sethos (pharaoh)
22, 71
Sicily
36–37, 63, 97–100
Athenian expedition to, in Thuc.
42n98, 96, 97–100
Solon
50 nn.12 and 15, 57n86, 60, 66, 67, 68 and nn. 82 & 83
and Croesus, in Hdt.
73–74
Sourdille, Camille
22–23n81
Stesichorus, and Helen
39n136
Strasburger, H.
6n10, 48n6, 57n47, 95, 97n39
Suasarion
20
Tainaron
12–13
Teleutias (Spartan commander in Xen.)
110–12
Thales
9
Thapar, Romila
2–3
Thebes, local history of and Pindar
34n126
Theopompus, and completion of Thuc.’s history
106
Theramenes (Athenian politician in Xen.)
108
Thermopylae, battle of
41, 51n20, 53; Ctesias on 77
Thessaly, and Xerxes’ march in Hdt.
27–30
Thetis and Peleus, story of
29, 30
Thirty-Years Peace, in Thuc.
101
thōma/thaumastic, in Hdt.
51–52 and n20
Thracian mercenaries, and Mycalessus
100–101
Thucydides
and abstraction
90–91, 102, 104, 105
and Athenian expedition to
42n98, 96, 97–100
Athenocentric and Hellenocentric view of Peloponnesian War as one that Athens lost
98–99
begins roughly where Hdt. stops
83
contrasted with local history
6, 93
and dating of the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
36 and n131
and distinction between surface and deep cause
102
divine normally excluded by
97
documents in
42
duplicative phrases (‘spoken in word’, ‘done in deed’ etc.) in
90, 91, 92
and dynamis/power
86–87, 94, 102–4, 110
and economic history
86–87, 94, 103
imitative of Hdt.
97, 99
and Homer
6–7, 37–38, 63
and human suffering and historical significance
93, 95–97, 100–102, 103–4
identification of, in his own text
17–18n63
and inscriptions
41–43
kinēsis, Peloponnesian War as
97
and local Greek historiography
27, 32–34, 88
and medical writing
89 and n15, 92
methodological introduction to his history
87–96
and Minos as model for Athenian archē
98–100
and murder of school children, at Mycalessus
101, 104
and Mycalessus
100–104, 110
and Mycenae
110
on palaia
32, 88, 98–99
pathos-statements in
96 and n37
Peloponnesian War defined by, and periodization
85, 95
performance of historical texts imagined in
91–92
Persians largely excluded from his history 98; contrasted with Hdt.
98n43
his Philaid genealogy in Marcellinus Vit.Thuc.
26
on pirates
38
and poets ‘who embellish’
37
on pre-history of Sicily
63
rivalry with Hdt.
89
Thirty-Years Peace, in
101
topics of his history resisted by Xen.
110–11
and treaties with Persia
42n158, 45
and utility of his history his chief goal
91, 93, 103
verse in
97
and ‘worthiness’ of being recorded in history
109
Trojan War, Troïka
37, 58, 61, 63, 72, 86, 94, 97
Trojans, Persians identify with
58, 61, 63–64
Tyndareus, oath of
38
Tyre and Thasos, and Heracles
56–57
verification, verifiable
62
war, outbreak of
7, 44, 57
Wilamowitz(-Moellendorff), U. von, on Phanodemus
39
Xenophanes
4
Ionian scientific views of
9
Xenophon
Agesilaus, general purpose of
114n32; allied with Plut.’s views 115
Anabasis, place in X’s corpus
113
and combining events of several years in one account
109
Cyropaedia best representative his historiography
113
and dating formulae like Thuc.’s
107
and Dionysius of Halicarnassus
115; and
ps. Dionysius
116
Hellenica, completion of Thuc.
106–7;
its compositional units
107;
not best representative of his historiography
113
and awareness of rules for writing history
105, 111
and completion of Thuc.’s history
106
Cyropaedia, place in X’s corpus
113
Mantinea, Batte of
107
and moral view of in history
111–16
his oath by Zeus
111
Phlius and
110
and Plutarch
115
and pushing back against Thuc.’s topics
110–11
and Quintilian
116
and Socrates
112
Teleutias and
110–12
and Theramenes
108
and Thirty Tyrants
107–8
and ‘worthiness’ of being recorded in history
108–12
Xerxes
47
imperial ambition of, in Hdt.
67, 74, 75–77
his march through Thessaly
27–30
list of his forces of invasion in Hdt.
11n38, 45
Zeus, Laphystios
28–29
oath by in Xen.’s Hell.
111