N. Bryant Kirkland is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"N. Bryant Kirkland's book offers a newly comprehensive view of the importance of Herodotus for a wide range of Imperial Greek authors. This is a wonderful discussion, full of thought-provoking close readings and framed within an innovative account of the workings of reception in the Greek literature of the Roman empire." -- Jason König, University of St Andrews

"N. Bryant Kirkland takes on a large and underexplored topic, the reception of Herodotus in imperial Greek literature, and handles it with aplomb. Theoretically astute but always lucid, he ranges across key authors such as Plutarch, Lucian, and Pausanias, and tackles major themes, including travel, ethnic identity, and literary imitation. This timely work should appeal to all scholars and students with an interest in the reception and transformation of Greek historiography and literature under the Roman empire." -- Timothy Rood, University of Oxford

"Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is a wonderful book, overflowing with life and ideas. It deserves to be read by everyone interested in Herodotus, above all as a triumphant vindication of the value of reception studies — not just as a branch of literary history, but as a way of enriching and transforming our understanding of the 'source' author. And for me, at least, it is oddly reassuring to find that at least some of Herodotus' ancient readers loved and valued the Histories for the same reasons as we do today: for their humanity, their tolerance, their deep seriousness, their equally deep unseriousness and their unfailing sense of joy and wonder. Someone give that man a lectureship." -- Peter Thonemann, Times Literary Supplement