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From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimally rubbed, overall very good and clean. Includes review of the book. / Minimal berieben, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. Beiliegend Rezension zum Buch. - Contents Vol. 1: Introduction -- 1. Herodotus today -- 2. A life of Herodotus? -- 3. Approaches and contents of Volume I -- ANTECEDENTS, SOURCES, CREDIBILITY, AND HISTORIE -- 1. The place of Herodotus in the history of historiography by Arnaldo Momigliano -- 2. Herodotos and his contemporaries by Robert L. Fowler -- HERODOTUS AND ORAL TRADITION -- 3. The stories before the Histories: Folktale and traditional narrative in Herodotus by Nino Luraghi -- 4. Oral tradition in Herodotus by J. A. S. Evans -- 5. Herodotus and Delphic traditions about Croesus by Harriet I. Flower -- CAUSATION, PATTERNING, AND THE MEANING OF HISTORY -- 6. Aspects of historical causation in Herodotus by Henry R. Immerwahr -- 7. Herodotean historiographical patterning: �The Constitutional Debate� by Donald Lateiner -- 8. Herodotean kings and historical inquiry by Matthew R. Christ -- NARRATOLOGY -- 9. Narratological aspects of the Histories of Herodotus by Irene J. F. de Jong -- THE USES OF HISTORY -- 10. Herodotus and Peridean Athens by Hermann Strasburger -- 11. Herodotus�perspective by Charles W. Fornara -- 12. Herodotus and the Athenian arche by Philip A. Stadter -- LOOK AT HIS END -- 13. Protesilaos and the end of Herodotus� Histories by Deborah Boedeker -- 14. Wanton kings, pickled heroes, and gnomic founding fathers: Strategies of meaning at the end of Herodotus�s Histories by Carolyn Dewald. - Contents Vol. 2: Introduction -- 1. Ethnography and history -- 2. Approaches and contents of Volume II -- PHUSIS AND HISTORI�-- 1. The boundaries of Earth by James S. Romm -- 2. Herodotus and analogy by Aldo Corcella -- 3. Herodotus and historia by Catherine Darbo-Peschanski -- THE HOMERIC WANDERER -- 4. Herodotus and Odysseus by John Marincola -- WOMEN IN HERODOTUS -- 5. Exit Atossa: Images of women in Greek historiography on Persia by Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg -- Addendum by Am�e Kuhrt -- 6. Women and culture in Herodotus� Histories by Carolyn Dewald -- WORLD RELIGIONS AND THE DIVINE -- 7. Herodotus and religion by John Gould -- 8. Herodotus on the names of the gods: Polytheism as a historical problem by Walter Burkert -- HERODOTUS� BARBARO! -- 9. Women�s customs among the �savages� in Herodotus by Mich� Rosellini and Suzanne Sa�-- 10. Imaginary Scythians: Space and nomadism by Fran�s Hartog -- 11. Herodotus the tourist by James Redfield -- 12. Herodotus and an Egyptian mirage: The genealogies of the Theban priests by Ian S. Moyer -- 13. Who are Herodotus� Persians? by Rosaria Vignalo Munson -- US AND THEM -- 14. Ethnicity, genealogy, and Hellenism in Herodotus by Rosalind Thomas -- 15. East is East and West is West�Or are they? National stereotypes in Herodotus by Christopher Pelling. ISBN 9780199587575