Herodotean Soundings

This volume is dedicated to the logos of Cambyses at the beginning of Book 3 in Herodotus'' Histories, one of the few sources on the Persian conquest of Egypt that has not yet been exhaustively explored in its complexity. The contributions of this volume deal with the motivations and narrative strategies behind Herodotus'' characterization of the Persian king but also with the geopolitical backgro...