Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the Western consciousness of collective identity. In this book fourteen contributors explore ethnicity - the very self-understanding of belonging to a body of human beings - through the lens of Herodotus as our earliest master of ethnography. "[T]he collection as a whole succeeds admirably in shedding light on how Herodotus as a historian thinks about and even helps construct ethnic identity among the many Greek and non-Greek peoples in the Histories." - The Classical Review