This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements tha

Herodotus, the 'Father of History', is infamously known for having employed elements more akin to mythological tales than to unvarnished 'truth' in translating

Recently the importance for Herodotus' work of contemporary medical and sophistic thought and techniques of argument has been widely recognised, as long had bee

This examination of Herodotus' references to mythological heroes reveals new aspects of his historiography and of his literary technique. In the development of

"Book I" of the Histories provides a particularly good illustration of the discursiveness and diversity of Herodotus' materials and of the ingenuity with which