Herodotus: The Father of History

Herodotus and History

"Inquiry" and the Birth of History

Myth, Legend, and Oral Tradition

Homeric Epic and the East-West Conflict

The Ionian Enlightenment

Athens in the Archaic Age

Politics and Culture in Fifth-Century Athens

Scope, Design, and Organization of the Histories

The Beginnings of the Conflict

Croesus, Solon, and Human Happiness

Cyrus and the Foundation of the Persian Empire

Herodotus' Account of Egypt

The Ascension of Darius

Darius and the Scythians

Sparta and the Spartan Way of Life

The Ionian Revolt and the Battle of Marathon

Xerxes and the Threat to Greece

The Battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium

The Victory of Greece

Persons, Personalities, and Peoples

The Gods, Fate, and the Supernatural

History or Literature-Or Both?

Herodotus, the Peloponnesian War, and Thucydides

Aftermath and Influence