About
- 1.Herodotus and History
- 2."Inquiry" and the Birth of History
- 3.Myth, Legend, and Oral Tradition
- 4.Homeric Epic and the East-West Conflict
- 5.The Ionian Enlightenment
- 6.Athens in the Archaic Age
- 7.Politics and Culture in Fifth-Century Athens
- 8.Scope, Design, and Organization of the Histories
- 9.The Beginnings of the Conflict
- 10.Croesus, Solon, and Human Happiness
- 11.Cyrus and the Foundation of the Persian Empire
- 12.Herodotus' Account of Egypt
- 13.The Ascension of Darius
- 14.Darius and the Scythians
- 15.Sparta and the Spartan Way of Life
- 16.The Ionian Revolt and the Battle of Marathon
- 17.Xerxes and the Threat to Greece
- 18.The Battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium
- 19.The Victory of Greece
- 20.Persons, Personalities, and Peoples
- 21.The Gods, Fate, and the Supernatural
- 22.History or Literature-Or Both?
- 23.Herodotus, the Peloponnesian War, and Thucydides
- 24.Aftermath and Influence