Herodotus

Linguistics into Interpretation, Speeches of War in Herodotus Vii 5 & 8-18: Speeches of War in Herodotus Vii 5 & 8-18 (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

This volume is a sustained exercise in the genre of secondary literature which aims at explaining a literary work as much as possible in and through the author's own words. A passage in direct speech by different speakers from the "History of Herodotus", the earliest long Greek prose text, has been made the object of a systematic effort to distil and analyze the linguistic characteristics relevant to its interpretation, by confronting it with the rest of the work as well as with earlier and contemporary writings.