77 results for '"Herodotus'

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reading Herodotus is a 2007 text which represented a departure in Herodotean scholarship: it was the first multi-authored collection of scholarly essays to focus on a single book of Herodotus'...

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...

Herodotus’ outstanding achievements as a literary figure, intellectual, historian and ethnographer have in recent years come to be appreciated with much greater depth and subtlety. This Companion...

Herodotus was the first writer in the West to conceive the value of creating a record of the recent past. He found a way to co-ordinate the often conflicting data of history, ethnology, and culture...

In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and...

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...

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...

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...