Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Volume 1. Herodotus and the narrative of the past. The place of Herodotus in the history of historiography / Arnaldo Momigliano -- Herodotos and his contemporaries / Robert L. Fowler -- The stories before the Histories : folktale and traditional narrative in Herodotus / Nino Luraghi -- Oral tradition in Herodotus / J.A.S. Evans -- Herodotus and Delphic traditions about Croesus / Harriet I. Flower -- Aspects of historical causation in Herodotus / Henry R. Immerwahr -- Herodotean historigraphical patterning : the constitutional debate / Donald Lateiner -- Herodotean kings and historical inquiry / Matthew R. Christ -- Narratological aspects of the Histories of Herodotus / Irene J.F. de Jong -- Herodotus and Periclean Athens / Hermann Strasburger -- Herodotus' perspective / Charles W. Fornara -- Herodotus and the Athenian archē / Philip A. Stadter -- Protesilaow and the end of Herodotus' Histories / Deborah Boedeker -- Wanton kings, pickled heroes, and gnomic founding fathers : strategies of meaning at the end of Herodotus' Histories / Carolyn Dewald.

Volume. 2. Herodotus and the world. The boundaries of Earth / James S. Romm -- Herodotus and analogy / Aldo Corcella -- Herodotus and historia / Catherine Darbo-Peschanski -- Herodotus and Odysseus / John Marincola -- Exit Atossa : iomages of women in Greek historiography on Persia / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg. Addendum / Amélie Kuhrt -- Women and culture in Herodotus' Histories / Carolyn Dewald -- Herodotus and religion / John Gould -- Herodotus on the names of the gods : polytheism as a historical problem / Walter Burkert -- Women's customs among the 'savages' in Herodotus / Michèle Rosellini and Suzanne Saïd -- Imaginary Scythians : space and nomadism / François Hartog -- Herodotus the tourist / James Redfield -- Herodotus and an Egyptian mirage : the genealogies of the Theban priests / Ian S. Moyer -- Who are Herodotus' Persians? / Rosaria Vignolo Munson -- Ethnicity, genealogy, and Hellenism in Herodotus / Rosalind Thomas -- East is east and west is west--or are they? : national stereotypes in Herodotus / Christopher Pelling.

This collection - the first of two volumes - is dedicated to the historical component of the Histories and includes important previously published essays, some translated into English for the first time, which discuss Herodotus' historical method, sources, narrative art, literary antecedents, intellectual background, and political ideology. The introduction contains an account of Herodotus' life and times, as well as a survey of recent scholarship designed as a guide for contextualizing the selected articles according to the range of approaches they represent.