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Herodotus' ΑΙΓϒΠΤΙΟΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ - Alan B. Lloyd: Herodotus, Book II. Commentary 99–182. (Études préliminaries aux religions orientates dans l'empire romain, 43.) Pp. viii + 330. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen and Cologne: Brill. 1988.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

Stephanie West
Stephanie West
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Hertford College, Oxford.
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The Classical Review , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , October 1989 , pp. 191 - 193
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1 Die Quellenangaben bei Herodot (Berlin and New York, 1971)Google Scholar, now available in an English version, embodying substantial revision, Herodotus and his ‘sources’: creation, invention and narrative art (Leeds, 1989)Google Scholar. (L. gives even shorter shrift to the somewhat similarly orientated work of O. K. Armayor; there is no reference to his important study of Herodotus' account of Sesostris (HSCPh 84 [1980], 51–74), nor to his Herodotus' Autopsy of the Fayoum: Lake Moeris and the Labyrinth of Egypt (Amsterdam, 1985Google Scholar; see CR 37 [1987], 6–8Google ScholarPubMed).)

2 Henige, David, Oral Historiography (London, New York and Lagos, 1982), 2.Google Scholar

3 Whose Egyptian name Herodotus does not tell us, though the new Photius shows that it was in Hecataeus (α 3352 ῎Άφθος· θε⋯ς παρ' Άἰγπτ⋯οις, ὣσπερ ἠ῏ Ισις κα⋯ ⋯ Ϊυφ⋯ν.Περιηγἠσει Αἱγ⋯πτου).

4 JPh 14 (1885), 262–263.Google Scholar

5 seems, L. not to know Erbse's discussion of this chapter, Ausgewählte Schriften zur klass. Philologie (Berlin and New York, 1979), 183–5.Google Scholar