The way of Herodotus: travels with the man who invented history

Dog-headed men, gold-digging ants and flying snakes, or, Why we should all read Herodotus

Turkey. Priestesses with beards ; Underwater Herodotus

Iraq. Fools and wars ; Baghdad, evangelicals and mocking madmen ; Babylon

Egypt. Memphis and Thebes : tall stories and self-immolating cats, or, No sex in temples, please, we're Egyptian ; Herodotus in Hollywood (and the Sahara) ; Cairo, mother of the world

Greece. Athens, city hall of wisdom ; Herodotus meets Aristotle ; Thessaloniki : history on the front line ; An exorcism ; Lunch (and a good deal of Retsina) with Patrick Leigh Fermor ; 'Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!' ; Wassailing gods, pious priests and tearful monks.