Invention of the Barbarian Scholars

Trying to not pop a Dido.

Walcot on Amazons

“[Amazons] challenged and defied women’s function as wife and as mother”

Stewart on Amazons

“signal many things about their male patrons… anxiety, desire”

Holland on Reality of Persia

“You were aware of it [Persian occupation] but it was never intrusive”

Kuhrt on the Reality of Persia

“his [Shahanshah’s] command and is able to unite them in his service”

Dewald and Marincola on Greek Unity

“Unity had not and would not exist”

Cartledge on Greek Unity

“It was a common culture”

Roberts on Herodotus

“Stand always in the position of evaluation”

Dewald and Marincola on Herodotus

“Justifies their [Persians] defeat in terms of the moral sensibilities”