Introduction – John North & Peter Mack   From Thucydides to Lucretius: the Plague of Athens, between medicine and classical scholarship in Renaissance Italy – Andrea Ceccarelli The Byzantine reception of Herodotus and Thucydides   – Elizabeth Jeffreys Herodotus and Thucydides in Procopius’ Wars – Vasiliki Zali Herodotus and Thucydides in Walter Ralegh’s History of the World – Ben Earley Thucydides and the English Renaissance education – Luca Iori A Protestant Thucydides in Reformation Germany – John Richards A mathematician among the classics: Isaac Newton as a reader of Herodotus – Mordechai Feingold Herodotus and the perception of the Persian empire. Some observations from a historical and methodological perspective – Reinhold Bichler The resurgence of Herodotus and the new philosophy of history – Gaston J. Basile The modernity of Thucydides – Neville Morley Index