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Translated by George Rawlinson, Introduction by Francis R.B. Godolphin

Nel quinto libro delle Storie Erodoto ricostruisce, in modo abbastanza ironico e demitizzante, le premesse, lo svolgimento e le ripercussioni della cosiddetta 'rivolta ionica', cioè il tentativo di...

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. Here is the historian, investigating and judging...

A distanza di quasi trent'anni dalla prima pubblicazione del volume, curato da Agostino Masaracchia e intitolato "La sconfitta dei Persiani" (1977), la Fondazione Valla offre una nuova edizione del...

Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the...

Tutta l'Asia si muove per partecipare alla spedizione che il re di Persia, Serse, organizza contro Atene e la Grecia al fine di vendicare la sconfitta patita dal padre Dario. Del viaggio e dei popoli...

Il libro comincia sotto segni sinistri per i Greci. I Persiani occupano Atene abbandonata e deserta: vi è rimasto soltanto un piccolo gruppo di Ateniesi, che barricano l'Acropoli con travi. Quando i...

A transporting anthology of ancient Greek and Roman travel writings that capture the thrill of exploration and discovery—from Europe to the Holy Land and Egypt to IndiaAt long last, a travel guide to...

Herodotus of Halicarnassus was an Ionian traveler and storyteller who lived in the 5th century BC. He is almost exclusively known for writing The Histories, a collection of "inquiries" about the...

An annotated Herodotus reader containing passages from books I-IX of the Histories with introductory material for all nine books of the Histories, commentary and grammatical notes. This book is a...

This text brings new approaches to Herodotus' sources and to his methods of collecting information, to the logic of his narrative and to his understanding of human behaviour. Drawing on recent...

This edited collection looks at two of the most important ancient Greek historians living in the 5th Century BCE who are considered to be the founders of the western tradition of historiography...

Book IX of Herodotus' Histories is the conclusive climax to his work, as the victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable Greek victory over Persia. This English commentary treats...

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.In the...

Hailed by Cicero as "the father of history," Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveler who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize...

Herodotus, widely known as the father of history, was also described by Aristotle as a mythologos, or "tale-teller." In this stylish and insightful book, intended for both general readers and...

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Popularly known as the 'Father of History', Herodotus is the first major prose writer in the history of Western literature whose work has survived in full. At a time when the ancient Greeks'...