Herodotus: Volume 2: Herodotus and the World

Introduction; Rosaria V. Munson; Physis and Historie; 1 James S. Romm: The Boundaries of Earth; 2 Aldo Corcella: Herodotus and Analogy; 3 Catherine Darbo-Peschanski: Herodotus and Historia; The Homeric wanderer; 4 John Marincola: Odysseus and the Historians; Women in Herodotus; 5 Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg and Addendun by Amelie Kuhrt: Exit Atossa: Images of Women in Greek Historiography about Persia; 6 Carolyn Dewald: Women and Culture in Herodotus Histories; World religions and the divine; 7 John Gould: Herodotus and Religion; 8 Walter Burkert: Herodotus on the Names of Gods: Polytheism as a Historical Problem; Herodotus barbaroi; 9 Michele Rosellini and Suzanne Said: Women's Customs among the Savages in Herodotus; 10 Franccois Hartog: Imaginary Scythians: Space and Nomadism; 11 James Redfield: Herodotus the Tourist; 12 Ian S. Moyer: Herodotus and an Egyptian Mirage; 13 Rosaria V. Munson: Who Are Herodotus' Persians?; Us and them; 14 Rosalind Thomas: Ethnicity, Genealogy, and Hellenism in Herodotus; 15 Christopher Pelling: East is East and West is West - Or Are They? National Stereotypes in Herodotus; Bibliography of Works Cited; Acknowledgements; Index

Rosaria Vignolo Munson, Professor of Classics, Swarthmore College