Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology of Events
A Note on the Persian Wars
List of Maps

The Histories

BOOK 1
BOOK 2
BOOK 3
BOOK 4
BOOK 5
BOOK 6
BOOK 7
BOOK 8
BOOK 9

Backgrounds

Aeschylus • From The Persians
Bacchylides • Third Epinician Ode
Thucydides • From The Peloponnesian War
[The Hippocratic Corpus] • From Airs, Waters, Places
Aristotle • From Politics
Plutarch • From On the Malice of Herodotus

The Amazons: Contrasting Accounts
Diodorus of Sicily • From Bibliotheca Historica
Strabo • From Geographica1.5.1–4

Commentaries

Early Modern Criticism

Isaac Taylor • [The Consequences of the Greek Victory for Western Civilization: A Christian View]
John Stuart Mill • [The Consequences of the Greek Victory for Western Civilization: A Secular View]
Thomas Babington Macaulay • [The Purpose and Method of History]

Modern Criticism

I.Background
R. G. Collingwood • History’s Nature, Object, Method, and Value
Christian Meier • The Origins of History in Ancient Greece
Oswyn Murray • Greek Historians

II. Herodotus
James Romm • The Shape of Herodotus’ World
Charles W. Fornara • Herodotus’ Perspective
Arnaldo Momigliano • The Place of Herodotus in the History of Historiography
J. A. S. Evans • Father of History or Father of Lies: The Reputation of Herodotus

III. The Persian Wars
A. T. Olmstead • Persia and the Greek Frontier Problem
Arther Ferrill • Herodotus and the Strategy and Tactics of the Invasion of Xerxes

IV. Aspects of Herodotus' Work
A.W. Gomme • Herodotos and Aeschylus
François Hartog • Amazons: Difference and Inversion
Rosaria Vignolo Munson • Artemisia in Herodotus
John Hart • Themistocles in History
Virginia Hunter • [Homer, Herodotus, and the Egyptian Logos]
Donald Lateiner • Five Systems of Explanation
James Redfield • Herodotus the Tourist
Siep Stuurman • Herodotus and Sima Qian: History and the Anthropological Turn in Ancient Greece and Han China

Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Walter Blanco is Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York. Jennifer Tolbert Roberts is Professor of Classics and History at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center.  Her books include Accountability in Athenian Government and Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought. Walter Blanco is Associate Professor of English at the City University of New York.