Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Biographical Traditions
2: The Great and the Marvellous
3: Herodotus and Hellenistic Geographies
4: The Persian Wars: new versions and new contexts
5: The Prose Homer of History
Epilogue
Appendix: Aristarchus' Commentary on Herodotus
Bibliography
Index
Jessica Priestley is a Leventis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition, University of Bristol.
Herodotus and hellenistic Culture offers a thoughtful discussion of
the evidence for the historian's place in Hellenistic thought.
*Alexander Sens, Hermathena*
Jessica Priestley, in Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture, has taken
full advantage of its speed and throughness in text-scanning to
augment her survey of the Hellenistic world's receptive responses
between the late fourth and the mid-second centuries BC. And her
focus on Herodotus also provides a striking instance of the
breakdown between genres ... Her wide-ranging collection of texts
influenced by Herodotus, and manipulating his work for their own
ends, take in - but goes well beyond - the historical, to explore
poetry, geographical treatises and ancient scholarship, including
literary criticism. That the use being made of the Histories today
should thus be so strikingly echoed by their reception in antiquity
may well be true, and Priestley makes a convincing case for it.
*Peter Green, The Times Literary Supplement*
In summary, this study not only provides new data ... but also
focuses on authors and genres that are not normally studied in
historiography.
*Professor Roberto Nicolai, Sehepunkte [translated from
Italian]*
Herodotus and Hellenistic Culture steers readers toward a more
radical model of Herodotean reception than prior scholarship has
put forth. It will teach contemporary readers not only about
Herodotus' ancient readers but also about Herodotus. Students of
Herodotus should find the book a refreshing turn in Herodoteana, in
which scholarly perspectives and tendencies long since honed and,
in some cases, at risk of becoming 'unduly entrenched' find new
life as they are directed toward less familiar texts.
*Bryant Kirkland, Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
Priestley's volume is an engaging and fascinating one which, by
looking back along this chain of reception into antiquity, not only
exposes what Herodotus meant to the ancients, but also opens up the
intriguing question of what Herodotus means to the modern
world.
*The Cambridge Humanities Review*
Arriving at any definitive conclusions about Hellenistic culture
is, of course, a herculean task ... but Priestley prudently focuses
on a few finite approaches that yield persuasive results
*Paul Ojennus, Classical Journal Online*
... excellent study ... The book is full of striking observations
and insights.
*Andrew Morrison, SHARP News*
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