This companion is a generous and extremely welcome work which both widens and enriches the debate on Herodotus’ reception, a theme that has provoked wide interest in recent decades, after a long period in which scholarship consisted of a sparse list of contributions, the most famous being some essays by Arnaldo MomiglianoThere is much here of potential interest for ancient Judaism, not least the chapter on Josephus's use of Herodotus.
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