Herodotus: Histories Book I

CAROLYN DEWALD is an emeritus professor of Classics and History, Bard College. Her publications include the introduction and commentary to Herodotus: The Histories (1998); Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study (2005); The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (edited with John Marincola, 2006); and articles in J. Rusten, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Thucydides (2009) and R. Munson, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Herodotus (2013). ROSARIA VIGNOLO MUNSON is the J. Archer and Helen C. Turner Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Telling Wonders: Ethno- graphic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus (2001); Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Language of Barbarians (2005), and several articles on Herodotus and Thucydides. She has edited Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Herodotus (2013).

• Introduction: 1. Life of Herodotus; 2. Form and thought in Herodotus' Histories; 3. Ethnographies; 4. Herodotean Greek; 5. Text and critical apparatus; Herodotus: Histories; Outline of Book 1; Commentary; Bibliography; General index; Index of Greek words.