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Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose
authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world
as he knew it - its peoples and their achievements, together with
the causes and course of the great wars that brought the Greek
cities into conflict with the empires of the Near East. Each
subsequent generation of historians has sought to use his text and
to measure their knowledge of these cultures against his
words.
This commentary by leading scholars, originally published in
Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and has now
been edited for English-speaking readers by Oswyn Murray and
Alfonso Moreno. It is designed for use alongside the Oxford
Classical Text of Herodotus, and will replace the century-old
historical commentary of How and Wells (1912) as the most
authoritative account of modern scholarship on Herodotus.
Books I-IV cover the history and cultures of Lydia, Egypt, Persia,
and the nomads of Scythia and North Africa, in their contacts with
the Greeks from mythical times to the start of the fifth century
BC; these themes, with many digressions, are woven into an account
of the expansion of the Persian Empire and its relations with the
Greeks.
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