Who Are Herodotus\u27 Persians?

In analyzing how Herodotus\u27 descriptions of foreign societies reflect Greek assumptions and prejudices, we have sometimes failed to recognize the extent to which he reports persuasive and historically valid information. This is particularly true of the Persians for whom Herodotus appears to have had access to very good sources, especially perhaps among Medes and Persians living in Asia Minor. This paper argues that Herodotus\u27 representation of Persian character and customs and his understanding of the relationship between the king and his subjects is based on genuine native traditions that reflect an internal debate within Persian elites in the aftermath of their war against Greece

When envy helps explain coordination

This paper identifies a class of symmetric coordination games in which the presence of envious people helps players to coordinate on a particular strict Nash equilibrium. In these games, the selected equilibrium is always risk-dominant. We also find that envious preferences are evolutionary stable when they lead to Pareto-efficiency.Envy Coordination games Risk-dominance Evolutionary stability

Herodotus Use Of Prospective Sentences And The Story Of Rhampsinitus And The Thief In The Histories

The Histories of Herodotus is analyzed in terms of performance rather than as a text to be read. Herodotus\u27 discourse appears composed of different types of sentences or groups of sentences, which can be classified in terms of their different performative roles and force