References

Prologue

1 Pindar fragment 110.

Chapter One

1 Herodotus 1.152–3.

Chapter Two

1 Herodotus 8.126.

2 Herodotus 7.66.

3 Chs 89ff.

4 Brosius 2000: no. 46.

5 Esther 1:5–7.

6 Herodotus 3.89.

7 Herodotus 5.52.

8 Herodotus 8.98.

9 Brosius 2000: no. 198, after Fornara 1983: no. 35, slightly modified.

10 Brosius 2000: no. 91.

Chapter Three

1 Herodotus 5.97.

2 Herodotus 6.89.

3 Herodotus 6.43.

4 Herodotus 8.30.

5 Herodotus 8.144.2.

6 Herodotus 3.38.

Chapter Four

1 Herodotus 5.49.

2 Herodotus 6.82.

3 Herodotus 9.7; compare 5.63.

4 Tyrtaeus fragment 12.11–14.

Chapter Five

1 Herodotus 7.102.

2 Herodotus 7.133.

3 Herodotus 1.151.

4 Herodotus 7.61.

5 Herodotus 7.74.

6 Herodotus 8.3.3.

7 Herodotus 7.49.

Chapter Seven

1 Trans. A. de Sélincourt.

Chapter Eight

1 Herodotus 7.139.

2 Tusculan Disputations 1.01.

3 Odes 3.2.13.

4 Lines 97–8.

Chapter Nine

1 Trans. M. A. Screech.

2 From Dialogue XL, in my translation.

3 Trans. Rebenich.

4 Trans. Rebenich.

Epilogue

1 Herodotus 8.27.1.