Herodotus
By Reginald Walter Macan




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Funded by The Annenberg CPB/Project

Table of Contents

First Page

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION
   Unity of the last three Books of Herodotus
   Justification of the existing subdivisions
   Characteristic and Analysis of Bk. 7
   Characteristic and Analysis of Bk. 8
   Characteristic and Analysis of Bk. 9
   Is the work of Herodotus incomplete, or unfinished?
   General considerations in support of the priority of Bks. 7, 8, 9
   Particular passages favourable to the priority of Bks. 7, 8, 9
   Marks of successive Redactions in Bks. 7, 8, 9
   The Sources: analysis inconclusive
   Defects and Merits of Herodotus historicus as exhibited in Bks. 7, 8, 9
   The false and the true estimates of Herodotus and his work

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