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Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of theinformation he gives has proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also entertains us with delightful tales of one-eyed men and gold-digging ants. This superbly readable new translation is supplemented by a fresh scholarly perspective that breaks new ground in Herodotean studies, providing readerswith all they need to appreciate the book in depth.CAROLYN DEWALD is Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California.ROBIN WATERFIELD is a distinguished translator whose version of Plato's Republic has been described as `the best available'.* Introduction * Textual Note *Bibliography * Chronology * Appendices * Glossary * Maps * Explanatory Notes * Textual Notes * Index of Proper Names No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The Histories is split into nine books. This particular edition also contains information on the units of measure that they use along with terms of money and other such things, since they have cubits and fingers and talents and such things that I have no reference to. The first few books talk about the history of some places along with the sometimes fanciful origin of those places. So we have a unique mixture of fact and fiction that makes the book rather charming in some ways. The book proceeds with talking about places, their origins and cultural practices until it gets to the wars that were fought by King Xerxes against the Athenians and their allies.
The war between King Xerxes and Greece takes up three of the nine books and covers most of the details that are important. The book includes maps and other information too. Before that, it builds up how Persia was formed. All in all a great book. ( )