Reading Herodotus

Reading Herodotus represents a new departure in Herodotean scholarship: it is the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus'' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely-related lines of enquiry: first to propose an individual thesis about the political historical and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5 and second to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and the overarching structure of Herodotus'' narrative. This collection of twelve essays by internationally-renowned scholars represents an important contribution to existing scholarship on Herodotus and will serve as an essential research tool for all those interested in Book 5 of the Histories the interpretation of Herodotean narrative and the historiography of the Ionian Revolt.