Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Transliterations & Abbreviations -- Introductions -- Reading Herodotus for the History -- The Ionian Revolt -- A Note on the Text -- Other Accounts of the Events in Book 6 -- Commentary -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Chronology of Book 6 -- Appendix 2 Naval Matters -- Appendix 3 The Persian Navy and Army -- Appendix 4 Travel Times -- Appendix 5 Darius' Family -- Appendix 6 The Oracle(s) of 19 and 77 -- Appendix 7 The Locations of Κοîλα and Πολíχνη -- Appendix 8 The Oracles to the Dolonci and Miltiades, 34-5 -- Appendix 9 The Implications of Keeping Racehorses -- Appendix 10 The Problems of 40 -- Appendix 11 The Political Changes in Ionia after the Revolt -- Appendix 12 Chronology for Athens and Aegina and Related Events -- Appendix 13 Feeding the King and the Spartan Quart -- Appendix 14 Cleomenes in Arcadia (and after): Sane or Mad? -- Appendix 15 Problems in the Argos Narrative, 76-84 -- Appendix 16 Pheidon(s) of Argos, 127.3 -- Appendix 17 Marathon -- Appendix 18 Miltiades' Expedition to Paros -- Appendix 19 Stemma for the Pisistratids -- Appendix 20 Stemma for the Philaids/Cimonids -- Appendix 21 Stemma for the Alcmaeonids -- Appendix 22 Stemmata for the Spartan Royal Houses -- Appendix 23 The Inachos Stemma: the Mythology of 47, 53, 78, 80 -- Maps -- Map 1 Ionia -- Map 2 Miletus area -- Map 3 Magna Graeca -- Map 4 Chios -- Map 5 Chersonese -- Map 6 Thrace -- Map 7 Central Greece and Peloponnese -- Map 8 Aegean Islands -- Map 9 Attica and Euboea -- Map 10 Marathon -- Bibliography -- Index 1: Herodotean words and phrases -- Index 2: Citations -- Index 3: General Index.