Herodotus of Halicarnassus recorded the conflict between Greeks and Persians and called his work ‘ἱστορίης ἀπόδεξις’. His life, the structure of the Histories, his method and the criticism he has faced from antiquity to the present day.
Homer all but ignores the division of the Greeks into Dorians, Aeolians, Ionians and Achaeans. How the names, genealogies and dialects of the ancient Greek tribes took shape.
The Iliad and the Odyssey, from questions of dating and the Homeric Question to the theory of oral composition. And how the Hellenistic age came to honour Homer almost as a god.
How the discovery that the Indo-European languages are related turned, in the nineteenth century, into a theory of “Aryans” and “Semites” setting out from the Pamir, and what linguistics and ancient DNA now reveal about the roots of Greek.
