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Herodotus' outstanding achievements as a literary figure, intellectual, historian and ethnographer have in recent years come to be appreciated with much greater depth and subtlety. This "Companion" offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of current approaches to Herodotus' remarkable work.

Herodotus "Histories" can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as na ve and archaic, the "Histories" are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary liter...