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Newly published on the Herodotus Helpline website: Jessica Priestley offers a rich response to the question 'What is the origin of the tenuous claim that Herodotus may have died in Pella as the guest of King Archelaus I of Macedonia?' herodotushelpline.org/what-is-the-... #Herodotus #AsktheHelpline
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Specialist talks on all aspects of Herodotus and his world, readings from Herodotus' Histories, quirky videos, and much more to come from the Herodotus Helpline. To 'Ask the Helpline' a question on an...
The Herodotus Helpline's YouTube channel includes more than 100 research talks hosted over the last five years. Just click subscribe to stay up-to-date as talks from the spring/summer 2025 series are added! www.youtube.com/HerodotusHel... @classicsforall.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social
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Programme of talks for the April-June 2025 Herodotus Helpline series:
2 April Tom Harrison (British Museum)
Divinity and History β 25 years on
30 April Ian Oliver (Regis)
Audiences of Herodotus
14 May Round-table: Teaching Herodotus
28 May Matteo Zaccarini (Bologna/Ravenna)
Herodotusβ women
11 June Rosalind Thomas (Balliol College, Oxford)
Herodotus in Context β 25 years on
The Herodotus Helpline is delighted to share details of its spring/summer 2025 edition of talks! All talks are freely open to everybody. Just register at herodotushelpline@gmail.com #Herodotus @classicsforall.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social
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Newly published on the Herodotus Helpline website: Hugh Bowden explores Herodotus' knowledge of the occult and Mystery Cults herodotushelpline.org/what-does-he... #Herodotus #AsktheHelpline
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YouTube video by Herodotus Helpline
Rachel Wong on oceanic resonances in Schiller's 'Ring Des Polykrates' (1797)
Rachel Wong's hugely rich and insightful talk for the Herodotus Helpline, 'Tragic Flotsam: Oceanic Resonances in Schiller's 'Ring des Polykrates', is now available to view on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWTB... #Herodotus #classicalreception
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Ounomata and EpΕnymiai:
| Syllogos - Herodotus Journal
The third issue of the Herodotus Helpline's open access journal, Syllogos, is now fully published. Everything from the Greek gods' names to imperial Persia, and from Iliadic intertextuality to Hippocleides who just doesn't care! journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/sy...
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This is indeed a fascinating talk
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Suzanne Marchand's fantastic seminar for the Herodotus Helpline, 'Herodotus and 'The Edges of the World' in the Nineteenth Century', is now available to view on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9TP... #Herodotus #classicalreception
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Newly published in Syllogos, the Herodotus Helpline's journal: Alaya Palamidis on Ounomata and EpΕnymiai:
Knowledge of Divine Names in Herodotus journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/sy... #Herodotus #gods #Homer #Greekreligion #Hesiod
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Hi, would it be possible to added to this excellent list?
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The Herodotus Helpline community are thrilled to be joining Bluesky. This evening we will host our final talk for 2023: Roberto Nicolai, 'From Hecataeus to Strabo via Herodotus: Pelasgians and Migration', 6pm GMT. Please contact herodotushelpline@gmail.com for the link to join. All welcome!
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