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Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars.(Book Review)
The Historian
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June 22, 2005|
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Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars. By Jon D. Mikalson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 269. $45.00.
This treatment of religion in the work of the first Greek historian is one of two that have appeared recently (cf. Thomas Harrison, Divinity and History: the Religion of Herodotus. Oxford, 2000). Both works set out to counter a long-standing trend in Herodotean scholarship. Historians who have used Herodotus' narrative as their window--essentially the only window--onto the world of Archaic Greece and the events of the Persian ...
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