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HERODOTUS AND THE TOPOGRAPHY OF XERXES INVASION...

In his Histories  Herodotus of Halicarnassus gave an account of Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480
BCE). Among the information in this work features a rich topography of the places visited by
the army  as well as of the battlefields. Apparently there existed a certain demand among the
Greeks to behold the exact places where they believed that the Greeks had fallen  gods had
appeared  or Xerxes had watched over his men.This book argues that Herodotus' topography  long
taken at face value as if it provided unambiguous access to the historical sites of the war 
may partly be a product of Greek imagination in the approximately fifty years between the
Xerxes' invasion and its publication  with the landscape functioning as a catalyst. This
innovative approach leads to a new understanding of the topography of the invasion  and of the
ways in which Greeks in the late fifth century BCE understood the world around them. It also
prompts new suggestions about the real-world locations of various places mentioned in
Herodotus' text.

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