Black Doves Speak

“This short, sharp book is a welcome, easily-digested addition to the growing stable of recent works on language and other symbolic systems in Herodotus.”—Benjamin Stevens, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

“An interesting and persuasive view, expounded in four chapters (bristling with footnotes and references, often half the page) which discuss the implications of more or less every reference to language in the Histories.”—Stephen Colvin, Journal of Hellenic Studies