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The Composition of Herodotus' History - J. Enoch Powell: The History of Herodotus. Pp. viii+96. Cambridge: University Press, 1939. Cloth, 7s. 6d

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

A. R. W. Harrison
A. R. W. Harrison
Affiliation:
Merton College, Oxford.
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The Classical Review , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , September 1939 , pp. 123 - 124
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1939

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page 123 note 1 Does Sophocles Antigone, 904–20 really prove the prior publication of H. iii. 119? The a priori probability that Sophocles and H. were personally acquainted is confirmed by Plutarch An seni 3, p. 785 B, and, if they were, it is surely not unlikely that the striking story of Intaphernes's wife was known to Sophocles before the publication of H.'s work. Need it have been known to a wider public?

page 124 note 1 It would be interesting to know how P. would classify his own work. Not presumably as historiography, for we read on p. 45 of ‘the death of historiography, the recognition that even the portrayal of the immediate present from the best of information is hopelessly and inevitably saturated with that same ”mythical“ quality’.