Christopher Baron - The Herodotus Encyclopedia, 3 Volume Set

1. Chapter 16
2. Chapter 18

1. Maps
2. Chapter 1
3. Chapter 2
4. Chapter 3
5. Chapter 4
6. Chapter 5
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 10
10. Chapter 13
11. Chapter 14
12. Chapter 16
13. Chapter 17
14. Chapter 18
15. Chapter 19
16. Chapter 21
17. Chapter 22

Edited by

Christopher Baron

Volume I
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Names: Baron, Christopher, 1973 editor.
Title: The Herodotus encyclopedia / Christopher Baron.
Description: Hoboken : Wiley, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020013454 (print) | LCCN 2020013455 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118689646 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119113539 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119113522 (epub)
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To Herodotus: 2,500 years and still going strong

The editor of any large collection must first and foremost thank the contributors. This truism is even more true in the case of Herodotus, whose vast scope requires the expertise of specialists in a broad array of modern disciplines. That academic diversity can be seen in the list of contributors (xiiixxxv): 181 scholars, based in 18 different nations, from current graduate students to the most senior (or retired) professors. From the beginning of this project, I have been continually impressed by the erudition, generosity, patience, and good humor of this community of scholars. Herodotus is wellserved.

The reader will find my name attached to several hundred entries in this encyclopedia. That was not the initial intention, nor does it fully reveal the process by which this massive work came into being. Florencia Foxley and Lester Stephens, during their time in the Classics MA program at Notre Dame, assisted in the preparation of approximately 200 entries each (initial research, collecting notes, writing rough drafts). Their work saved me many hours and helped me begin to gain a sense of what form the final product would take. All errors remain my responsibility.

My Herodotus class at Notre Dame in Spring 2017 accepted their assignmentwith not just good humor, but genuine enthusiasmto prepare an initial draft of an entry (or entries): Steven Garden, Alyssa Grant, Thomas Karam, Stephen Kilbourn, Judy Kim, Mark Mariani, Livvie May, Ellis Sargeant, Jordan Shead, and Will Wolf. I thank them for their assistance and good cheer. In addition, several of the graduate students from that class signed on as regular contributors to write one or more entries. Their names will be found attached to those entries, but I thank them here as well: Raleigh Heth, William Stover, Romain Thurin, and Ryan Walker.

Two more graduate students who became regular contributors deserve special mentions of my gratitude. Angela Zautcke was part of the Herodotus class; she volunteered to write more entries and ended up contributing around twenty of them. Melody Wauke, my research assistant in Fall 2018, wrote more than forty entries and identified a number of thorny issues (she now knows more than most about the rivers of northern Greece). I marvel at their diligence and attention to detail, which helped me complete this project more quickly than I would have otherwise.

Special thanks also go to those contributors who responded to cries for help and joined the project, or took on additional entries, at an advanced stage: David Branscome, Aideen Carty, Peter Hunt, Bryant Kirkland, Donald Lateiner, Carolina LpezRuiz, Mark Mash, Matt Simonton. And to scholars who assisted with matters of detail outside my comfort zone: Denise Demetriou, Liz Irwin, Danielle Kellogg, Angela McDonald, Hannah Ringheim, Matt Waters, Josef Wiesehfer. Finally, Alison Lanski gamely wrote a large number of entries on minor people and places.

At the initial stage of the project, I received welcome assistance from Kelly Taylor, Natalie Sargent, and Florencia Foxley in producing the list of headwords. Along the way, Maria Giulia Genghini and Jasper Donelan provided valuable translations of contributions written in foreign languages. And at the end, Maria Ma bravely proofread several hundred entries, highlighted potential concerns, and helped me create the mapsanother late but, I hope, valuable addition to these volumes. Rosemary Morlin, as copy editor, supplied a muchneeded extra set of eyes, detecting and correcting numerous errors in the final manuscript.