Herodotean Soundings

Alexander Schütze and Andreas Schwab: Herodotean Soundings. The Cambyses Logos Close readings: Linguistic, narratological and philosophical perspectives Elizabeth Irwin: Just Who is Cambyses? Imperial Identities and Egyptian Campaigns Anna Bonifazi: Herodotus' verbal strategies to depict Cambyses' abnormality Anthony Ellis: Relativism in Herodotus. Foreign Crimes and Divinities in the Inquiry The Cambyses logos and other sources on the conquest of Egypt Melanie Wasmuth: Perception and Reception of Cambyses as Conqueror and King of Egypt. Some Fundamentals Alexander Schütze: Cambyses the Egyptian? Remembering Cambyses and Amasis in Persian Period Egypt Reinhold Bichler: A comparative look at the post-Herodotean Cambyses Geopolitical dimensions of the Cambyses logos Gunnar Sperveslage: On the historical and archaeological background of Cambyses' alliance with Arab tribes (Hdt. 3.4-9) Damien Agut-Labordère: An "Ammonian Tale". Cambyses in the Egyptian Western Desert Olaf E. Kaper: The revolt of Petubastis IV during the reigns of Cambyses and Darius Andreas Schwab: Pindaric 'arrows' in Herodotus: Psámmos (Hdt. 3.26). Just a sandstorm or also a rebel(lion)? Cambyses and the Egyptian Temples Dan'el Kahn: Cambyses' Attitude towards Egyptian Temples in Contemporary Texts and Later Sources. A Reevaluation of the Persian Conquest of Egypt Fabian Wespi: Cambyses' Decree and the destruction of Egyptian temples Joachim Friedrich Quack: Cambyses and the sanctuary of Ptah List of Contributors Index nominum, rerum et locorum Index fontium

Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwab ist W3-Professor für Klassische Philologie, insbesondere Gräzistik, und DFG-Heisenberg-Professor am Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde an der Universität Kiel. Dr. Alexander Schütze ist akademischer Rat auf Zeit am Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.