• Introduction Elizabeth Irwin and Emily Greenwood; 1. 'What's in a name?' and exploring the comparable: onomastics, ethnography and kratos in Thrace (5.1–2 and 3–10) Elizabeth Irwin; 2. The Paeonians: 5.11–17 Robin Osborne; 3. Narrating ambiguity: murder and Macedonian alliances: 5.17–22 David Fearn; 4. Bridging the narrative: 5.23–7 Emily Greenwood; 5. The trouble with the Ionians: Herodotus and the beginning of the Ionian Revolt (5.28–38.1) Rosaria Munson; 6. The Dorieus episode and the Ionian Revolt: 5.42–8 Simon Hornblower; 7. Aristagoras: 5.49–55.97 Christopher Pelling; 8. Structure and significance: 5.55–69 Vivienne Gray; 9. Athens and Aegina: 5.82–9 Johannes Haubold; 10. 'Saving' Greece from the 'ignominy' of tyranny? The 'famous' and 'wonderful' speech of Socles John Moles; 11. Cyprus and Onesilus: an interlude of freedom (5.104, 108–16) Anastasia Serghidou; 12. The Fourth Dorian Invasion and the Ionian Revolt (5.76–126) John Henderson.

"The thick but narrow focus of the volume as a whole makes it a must-read for Herodoteans, though historiographers and Greek prose specialists too will profit from a careful study of it with Book 5; and certainly, any scholar researching any passage in Histories 5 will have to consult it (with the aid of its excellent index locorum)." --BCMR