In this Companion an international team of scholars discusses Herodotus' Histories, the first major surviving prose work from antiquity, and explores their background, methodology and ideas. Each chapter introduces the reader to relevant Herodotean scholarship, providing critical insights and a guide to further reading on the subject. This volume brings together a series of thematically arranged essays by leading classicists examining Herodotus's Histories. Key topics include his narrative techniques, historiographical methods, intellectual and religious assumptions, his portrayal of foreign cultures, the interplay between myth and documented history, and his significance as a social commentator. It offers both an accessible introduction for non?specialists and up-to-date critical scholarship, complete with further reading suggestions, glossary and chronology.