The most recent editions of the text, or of portions of it, with and without commentaries are the following:--H. Stein, _Herodoti Historiae_ (ed. Major, 2 vols., Berlin, 1869-1871, with _apparatus criticus_; still the best edition of the text); H. Kellenberg, _Historiarum libri IX._ (2 vols., Leipzig, 1887); van Herwerden, [Greek: Historiai] (Leiden, 1885); H. Stein, _Herodotus, erklart_ (Berlin, 1856-1861, and several editions since; the best short commentary and introduction); A. H. Sayce, _The Ancient Empires of the East, Herodotus I.-III., with introductions and appendices_ (1883; an attempt to prove the unveracity of Herodotus, especially in regard to the extent of his travels, which has found little support amongst more recent English or German writers); R. W. Macan, _Herodotus IV.-VI._ (2 vols., 1895) and _Herodotus VII.-IX._ (2 vols., 1908), with exhaustive introduction, appendices and notes; the only scientific edition of these books in English; E. Abbott, _Herodotus V. and VI._ (Oxford, 1893); A. Wiedemann, _Herodots zweites Buch mit sachlichen Bemerkungen_ (Leipzig, 1890; the best and fullest commentary on book ii.). Among works of value illustrative of Herodotus may be mentioned Bouhier, _Recherches sur Herodote_ (Dijon, 1746); Rennell, _Geography of Herodotus_ (London, 1800); Niebuhr, _Geography of Herodotus and Scythia_ (Eng. trans., Oxford, 1830); Dahlmann, _Herodot, aus seinem Buche sein Leben_ (Altona, 1823); Eltz, _Quaestiones Herodoteae_ (Leipzig, 1841); Kenrick, _Egypt of Herodotus_ (London, 1841); Mure, _Literature of Greece_, vol. iv. (London, 1852); Abicht, _Ubersicht uber den Herodoteischen Dialekt_ (Leipzig, 1869, 3rd ed., 1874), and _De codicum Herodoti fide ac auctoritate_ (Naumburg, 1869); Melander, _De anacoluthis Herodoteis_ (Lund, 1869); Matzat, "Uber die Glaubenswurdigkeit der geograph. Angaben Herodots uber Asien," in _Hermes_, vi.; Budinger, _Zur agyptischen Forschung Herodots_ (Vienna, 1873, reprinted from the _Sitzungsber._ of the Vienna Acad.); Merzdorf, _Quaestiones grammaticae de dialecto Herodotea_ (Leipzig, 1875); A. Kirchhoff, _Uber die Entstehungszeit des Herodotischen Geschichtswerkes_ (Berlin, 1878); Adolf Bauer, _Herodots Biographie_ (Vienna, 1878); H. Delbruck, _Perser und Burgunderkriege_ (Berlin, 1887; of great importance for the criticism of the Persian Wars); N. Wecklein, _Uber die Tradition der Perserkriege_ (Munich, 1876); A. Hauvette-Besnault, _Herodote historien des guerres mediques_ (Paris, 1894); J. A. R. Munro, _Some Observations on the Persian Wars_ (in various vols. of the _Journal of Hellenic Studies_; acute and suggestive); G. B. Grundy, _The Great Persian War_ (London, 1901); J. P. Mahaffy, _History of Greek Classical Literature_, ii. 16 ff. (London, 1880); E. Meyer, _Forschungen zur alten Geschichte_, i. 151 ff., and ii. 196 ff. (Halle, 1892-1899); Busolt, _Griechische Geschichte_, ii.