Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Leading up to the first speech (1-5.1) -- First speech of Mardonius (5.2-3) -- Xerxes persuaded (6-8.1) -- First speech of Xerxes (8 α–δ) -- Second speech of Mardonius (9) -- First speech of Artabanus (10) -- Second speech of Xerxes (11) -- First speech of the Dream (12) -- Third speech of Xerxes (13) -- Second speech of the Dream (14) -- Fourth speech of Xerxes (15) -- Second speech of Artabanus (16) -- Third speech of the Dream (17) -- Fifth speech of Xerxes (18) -- Appendix -- Index of Passages Cited -- Index of Greek Words -- Analytical Index -- Supplements to Mnemosyne.

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This volume is a sustained exercise in the genre of secondary literature which aims at explaining a literary work as much as possible in and through the author's own words. A crucial passage in direct speech by different speakers from the History of Herodotus, the earliest long Greek prose text, has been made the object of a systematic effort to distill and analyse the linguistic characteristics relevant to its interpretation, by confronting it with the rest of the work as well as with earlier and contemporary writings. This is done with the primary aim of placing the interpretation of a major author on the firmest ground available, the author's inches per secondissimi verba . The result, made accessible by full indexes, will prove helpful to readers of any part of Herodotus' History .

English and Greek.