Linguistics into interpretation : : speeches of war in Herodotus VII 5 and 8-18 / / by Johannes M. van Ophuijsen and Peter Stork.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 195
• Author: Ophuijsen, J. M. van, 1953-
• TeilnehmendeR: Stork, Peter.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; Ancient Greek
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 195.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xlv, 325 pages)

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 crucial passage in direct speech by different speakers from the History of Herodotus, the earliest long Greek prose text...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Leading up to the first speech (1-5.1)
• First speech of Mardonius (5.2-3)
• Xerxes persuaded (6-8.1)
• First speech of Xerxes (8 α–δ)
• Second speech of Mardonius (9)
• First speech of Artabanus (10)
• Second speech of Xerxes (11)
• First speech of the Dream (12)
• Third speech of Xerxes (13)
• Second speech of the Dream (14)
• Fourth speech of Xerxes (15)
• Second speech of Artabanus (16)
• Third speech of the Dream (17)
• Fifth speech of Xerxes (18)
• Appendix
• Index of Passages Cited
• Index of Greek Words
• Analytical Index
• Supplements to Mnemosyne.