Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-327) and indexes.
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?