What you have in the reader is a selection of passages from Herodotos' History (of the Persian invasion of Greece and the events leading up to it). The other important classical historian of Greece, Thucydides (writing on the Pelponnesian War) hardly mentions women at all.
How does the representation of women in Herodotos conform to or differ from other representations of women that we have read? Does it matter that many of the women in Herodotos are 'barbarian'?I have organized the passages chronologically as they come in the History: could they be arranged in a different way? Do they seem to you to fall into certain categories?
How does the Herodotean conception of 'history' differ from others with which you are familiar?
What are Dewald's main arguments? Identify the strengths and weaknesses of her analysis.