IRENE J. F. de Jong is Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on Homer, Herodotus, and Euripides, and is the editor of a multi-volume history of ancient Greek narrative. Her publications include A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey (Cambridge, 2001), Homer: Iliad Book XXII (Cambridge, 2012), and Narratology and Classics: A Practical Guide (2014). She is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy, the Norwegian Academy, the Academia Europaea, and the British Academy.

• Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Commentary; Part I. Opening: 1. Introduction of Croesus; 2. Candaules and Gyges; 3. Arion and the dolphin; 4. Croesus and solon; 5. Croesus, Atys and Adrastus; 6. Croesus and the oracles; 7. The capture of Croesus; 8. Cyrus' youth and accession to the throne; 9. Cyrus' death; Part II: 10. Helen in Egypt; 11. Rhampsinitus and the thief; Part III: 12. The madness of Cambyses; 13. Polycrates and his ring; 14. Periander and his son Lycophron; 15. The death of Cambyses; 16. Darius' accession to the throne; 17. Darius and Democedes; Part IV. 18. The Ionians at the Ister; Part V: 19. Darius' summons of Histiaeus; 20. The start of the Ionian revolt; 21. Aristagoras in Sparta; 22. Aristagoras in Athens; 23. Socles on Cypselus and Periander; 24. The burning of Sardis; 25. The death of Aristagoras; Part VI. 26. The death of Histiaeus and the end of the Ionian revolt; 27. Mardonius' failed expedition against Greece; 28. Marathon; 29. Alcmeon, Megacles; Part VII: 30. Xerxes' decision to attack Greece; 31. Xerxes' conversation with Artabanus at Abydus; 32. Xerxes' conversation with Demaratus at Doriscus; 33. Herodotus' encomium of Athens; 34. (Fourth) Persian catalogue; 35. Thermopylae; Part VIII: 36. Artemisium; 37. Salamis; Part IX. 38. Plataea; 39. Concluding episodes; Appendix: Summary of the histories; Bibliography; Indexes.