Emily Baragwanath - Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus

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For my parents, Barbara and David Baragwanath

There can never be a single story. There are only ways of seeing.

Arundhati Roy, Come September

This is the revised version of an Oxford D. Phil. thesis completed in 2005, written with the support of a scholarship funded by the Rhodes Trust, in the hospitable environment of Magdalen College. A Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, funded by the Christopher Tower Fund, allowed me to finish the project in the most welcoming and collegial of settings. I am extremely grateful to the Dean and Students of Christ Church for electing me to the position. The department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has provided much support and assistance with the final preparations for publication.

Many individuals have helped with this book. My sincere thanks go first of all to Chris Pelling: a most extraordinary supervisor, to whom I owe a vast debt. I thank him especially for the warmth and humanity of his scholarship, which has been an inspiration to me from beginning to end. Hugely generous with his time, he enabled me to refine my thinking at every stage of the thesis. I thank warmly my examiners, John Marincola and Angus Bowie, for their generous engagement with the thesis and many detailed and perceptive comments, which helped me enormously in improving it. My adviser Rosalind Thomas has overseen the process of transition from thesis to book with her inspiring, meticulous gaze. Ian McAuslan has been a tremendous help in copy-editing it, and the team at OUP in overseeing the whole process with great efficiency. For reading or discussing my work on Herodotus I am extremely grateful also to Stephanie West (who assisted me especially with what is now chapter nine), Tim Rood, Peter Parsons, Oliver Taplin, Pietro Vannicelli, Elton Barker, and the audiences at several conferences and seminars. Special thanks are due to Mathieu de Bakker for many stimulating Herodotus discussions and for his careful reading of a draft. Vivienne Gray first introduced me to Herodotus with her sparkling teaching, and she suggested to me this area of research. For inspiring teaching at an earlier stage I thank Sue Haywood, Ken Trembath, Tom Stevenson, and Paul McKechnie. None of these people is to be held in any way accountable for the shortcomings that remain in the book.

The warmest of thanks are due also to my friends and family for their support, especially to my parents, to whom this book is dedicated, and to my twin Paul. And a final large thank you to Sean, for a thousand things, including his help with this project from beginning to end, but particularly for his encouragement and companionship.

Abbreviations follow those of LSJ and (for journal titles) LAnne Philologique. For ease of reference I abbreviate texts, translations, commentaries, and lexica as below (to the name of the scholar and a reference to the lines in question). These are not replicated in the References.