Interpreting Herodotus
Edited by Thomas Harrison and Elizabeth Irwin
Author Information
Thomas Harrison, Professor of Ancient History, University of St Andrews,Elizabeth Irwin, Associate Professor of Classics, Columbia University
Thomas Harrison is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, where his research interests include Herodotus, the Achaemenid Persian empire, the Greek relationship with the non-Greek world, and the reception of these themes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship. His publications include Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus (Oxford, 2000), The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' Persians and the History of the Fifth Century (London, 2000), and Writing Ancient Persia (London, 2011), as well as the edited volumes Polybius and his World: Essays in Memory of F. W. Walbank (Oxford, 2013; with Bruce Gibson) and Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, forthcoming; with Joseph Skinner). He is currently working on a study of the role of belief in Greek religion.
Elizabeth Irwin is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the author of Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation (Cambridge, 2005) and the co-editor of two volumes on Herodotus: Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories (Cambridge, 2007; with Emily Greenwood) and Herodots Wege des Erzahlens (Frankfurt am Main, 2013; with Klaus Geus and Thomas Poiss); she has also written numerous articles on Herodotus and Thucydides and is currently finishing a book on the relationship of Herodotus' Histories to the Atheno-Peloponnesian War and to Thucydides' account of it. Her current research is centred on medical discourse and ethical debates of the later fifth century, political and historical readings of Greek lyric and Athenian drama, Prodicus, Plato, and the reception of Athenian arche in Greek imperial literature.
Contributors:
Reinhold Bichler is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck.
Wolfgang Blosel holds the Chair for Ancient History at the Universitat Duisburg-Essen.
Ewen Bowie is an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
John Dillery is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.
Emily Greenwood is Professor of Classics at Yale University.
Jonas Grethlein is Professor of Greek Literature at Heidelberg University.
Thomas Harrison is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews.
Elizabeth Irwin is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University.
P. J. Rhodes is Honorary Professor and Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Durham.
Robert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck.
Kai Ruffing holds the Chair for Ancient History at Kassel University.
Joseph E. Skinner is a Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at Newcastle University.
Christopher Tuplin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool.
