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Herodotus: Histories, Books 5-9 (Herodoti Historiae: Libri V-IX)
N. G. Wilson
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Hardback. In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1906 and last revised in 1927, incorporating much of the valuable work on the text that has been conducted since the original edition, in particular that of J. Enoch Powell and Paul Maas. Editor(s): Wilson, N. G. Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSK; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 33. Weight in Grams: 524.
In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1906 and last revised in 1927. As well as incorporating much of the valuable work on the text that has been conducted since the original edition, in particular that of J. Enoch Powell and Paul Maas, Wilson has taken into account new readings from over 80 papyri. In addition, clarity in the apparatus criticus has been improved by the collation of two previously neglected medieval manuscripts, which belong to the so-called Roman family. ... Read more
In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1906 and last revised in 1927. As well as incorporating much of the valuable work on the text that has been conducted since the original edition, in particular that of J. Enoch Powell and Paul Maas, Wilson has taken into account new readings from over 80 papyri. In addition, clarity in the apparatus criticus has been improved by the collation of two previously neglected medieval manuscripts, which belong to the so-called Roman family. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Oxford Classical Texts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199560714
SKU
V9780199560714
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About N. G. Wilson
N. G. Wilson is an Emeritus Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Lincoln College, University of Oxford.
Reviews for Herodotus: Histories, Books 5-9 (Herodoti Historiae: Libri V-IX)
This edition is a real asset for the Oxford Classical Texts series.
Jan P.Stronk, Exemplaria Classica
this is undoubtedly the most sensible, and reliable, text of Herodotus now available ... [The editor has] incorporated valuable, and hitherto inaccessible, wisdom from the unpublished annotations of earlier scholars
Peter Green, Times Literary Supplement
Jan P.Stronk, Exemplaria Classica
this is undoubtedly the most sensible, and reliable, text of Herodotus now available ... [The editor has] incorporated valuable, and hitherto inaccessible, wisdom from the unpublished annotations of earlier scholars
Peter Green, Times Literary Supplement