Born 1954; 1977 MA, University of Toronto; 1980 DPhil (Literae Humaniores), Oxford; Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek, University of Bristol (Emeritus since 2017); Fellow of the British Academy.

Preface Groundwork 1.Herodotus and his Contemporaries Myth, History, Mythistory 2.Mythos and Logos 3.Myth, History, Mythistory 4.Greek Mythography Ethnicity 5.Genealogical Thinking, Hesiod's Catalogue, and the Creation of the Hellenes 6.The nostoi and Archaic Greek Ethnicity 7.Foreigners in Early Greek Mythography Style, Methods, Contexts 8.Early Histori? and Literacy 9.Herodotus and Athens 10.Herodotus and his Prose Predecessors 11.How to Tell a Myth: Genealogy, Mythology, Mythography 12.Hecataeus, Pherecydes, Hellanicus: Three Approaches to Mythography 13.Imaginary Itineraries in the Beyond 14.Herodotus and the Pleasure of the Text Religion 15.Thoughts on Myth and Religion in Early Greek Historiography 16.Gods in Early Greek Historiography Postclassical Continuations 17.Apollodorus and the Art of the Variant 18.Myth(ography), History and the Peripatos Looking Back, and Forward 19.Myth and Mythography: Last Thoughts, and a Response to Criticism