Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why did it all happen?
  • To blame and to explain: narrative complications
  • How can you possibly know?
  • Adventures in prose
  • Hippocratic affinities
  • Explanations in combination
  • Early moves
  • Empire
  • Herodotus' Persian stories
  • The human and the divine
  • Explaining victory
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Individuals and collectives
  • Then and now : Herodotus' own day
  • Why indeed?.