The Herodotus Encyclopedia

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1 Chapter 16Table 1 List of the Herodotean papyri (see also the shorter schedule in Bandi...

2 Chapter 18Table 2 Levels of narration

1 Maps Map 1 The Mediterranean Basin and Europe Map 2 The Aegean Basin and Greece Map 3 The Eastern Mediterranean and Asia

2 Chapter 1 Figure 1 Theseus fighting the Amazons (red‐figure Attic krater attributed to... Figure 2 Fragment of the top of a marble column base from Ephesus, preservin... Figure 3a Reconstructed view of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, mid‐sixth ... Figure 3b Temple of Apollo at Delphi, reconstructed E façade; late sixth cen... Figure 4 Silver stater of Taras in Italy, first quarter of the fifth century... Figure 5 The “Serpent Column” dedicated by thirty‐one Greek city‐states at D... Figure 6 Map of the Battle of Artemisium. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki... Figure 7 Composite drawing of PFS 38 from the Persepolis Fortification table... Figure 8 Artist’s reconstruction of the Athenian acropolis in the late fifth...

3 Chapter 2 Figure 9 The multi‐lingual inscription carved into Mount Bisitun, comprising... Figure 10 Detailed drawing of the relief at Bisitun, labeling the captions w...

4 Chapter 3 Figure 11 Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and Leonidas (Gerard Butler) share a mome...Figure 12 Attic red‐figure amphora painted by Myson, first decade of the fif...

5 Chapter 4Figure 13 A male chyrselephantine head, perhaps Apollo, from the Halos Depos...Figure 14 View of the Temple and Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi.Figure 15 Model of the terrace of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Michael C....Figure 16 Ostraca bearing the names of Megacles (L) and Xanthippus (R), both...Figure 17 Red‐figure alabastron, unattributed, c. 480–470 BCE, showing women...

6 Chapter 5Figure 18 Photograph of the tunnel of Eupalinus on Samos.

7 Chapter 7Figure 19 The world according to Herodotus. Everyman’s Atlas of Ancient and ...Figure 20 A network graph of places mentioned by Herodotus. http://hestia.op...

8 Chapter 8Figure 21 Calcite jar from Halicarnassus with the inscription “Xerxes Great ...Figure 22 The Persian invasion of Greece. Michael Grant, Atlas of Classical ...Figure 23 Satellite image of the Hellespont (Dardanelles), the narrow strait...Figure 24 Marble bust inscribed “Herodotus,” Roman‐era copy of a Greek bronz...Figure 25 Hoplite scene from the Chigi olpe (640–630 BCE).Figure 26 Attic red‐figured cup, Kodros Painter, c. 440–430 BCE, depicting t...

9 Chapter 10Figure 27 Felix Jacoby (1876–1959). Herbert Bloch, ed. Abhandlungen zur grie ...

10 Chapter 13Figure 28 First page of text in Codex Laurentianus 70.3, opening chapters of ...Figure 29 Battle of Marathon, 490 BCE. Peter Krentz, The Battle of Marathon ...Figure 30 Bronze Corinthian helmet inscribed with the name Miltiades. Olympi...Figure 31 Arnaldo Momigliano (1908–1987). Journal of Roman Studies 77 (1987)...Figure 32 Gold daric of Xerxes. John Max Wulfing Collection of Ancient Coins...

11 Chapter 14Figure 33 Photo of the Nile River in Egypt (bottom) with Sinai Peninsula and...

12 Chapter 16Figure 34 Aerial photograph of the ruins of Persepolis (Iran), taken May 26,...Figure 35a The Persian Empire c. 500 BCE. Public Domain.Figure 35b An overview of the Persian Empire. Reinhold Bichler, “Asien im Üb...Figure 35c Asia Minor and the Near East in the Persian Empire. Reinhold Bich...Figure 36 The Battle of Plataea 479 BCE. J. P. Barron, “The Liberation of Gr...Figure 37 Apadana or Treasury relief from Persepolis: view of a frieze that ...

13 Chapter 17Figure 38 Hans Makart’s An Egyptian Princess (1875) (www.the‐athenaeum.org/a...

14 Chapter 18Figure 39 The island of Salamis. Peter Green, The Greco‐Persian Wars , ...Figure 40 Ruins of the Heraion on Samos in 2005. https://commons.wikimedia.o...Figure 41 Gold appliqué, fourth century BCE, depicting Scythian archers (Pan...Figure 42 The Olympias, a modern reconstruction of an ancient Greek trireme,...

15 Chapter 19Figure 43 Plan of the temple of Aphaia at Aegina. David Asheri, Alan Lloyd, ...Figure 44 The “Themistocles Decree,” which came to light in Troezen in the 1...Figure 45 Thermopylae today, looking N/NW toward Thessaly. The highway in th...Figure 46 Thermopylae and the Anopaea path, by which the Persians outflanked...Figure 47 Ishtar Gate, one of the eight gates of the inner wall of Babylon. ...Figure 48 Silver Stater, Thurium, 440–435 BCE. Obv.: Head of Athena (r.) wea...Figure 49 Lenormant Trireme Relief, found on the Acropolis of Athens in 1852...

16 Chapter 21Figure 50 Black‐figure eye cup with warships and prows of warships at the ha...

17 Chapter 22Figure 51 Reconstruction of the walls of Babylon, from an eighteenth‐century...Figure 52 Detail from the Oxford Brygos Cup (1911.615) of c. 480 BCE, depict...Figure 53 Wife of Candaules, being watched by her husband and Gyges. Early f...Figure 54 Column inscribed in the Boeotian script c. 500 BCE referring to a ...

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