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Samuel Shirley’s elegant translation is enhanced by James Romm’s excellent introduction and epilogue and clear, informative notes. -- Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Wesleyan University
This crisp, user-friendly volume provides the historical essence of Herodotus’ great Histories. -- Deborah Boedeker, Brown University
This crisp, user-friendly volume provides the historical essence of Herodotus’ great Histories. -- Deborah Boedeker, Brown University
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Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgment presents those selections that comprise Herodotus’ historical narrative. These are meticulously annotated, and supplemented with a chronology of the Archaic Age, Historical Epilogue, glossary of main characters and places, index of proper names, and maps.
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus here gives the results of his researches, so that the events of human history may not fade with time and the notable achievements both of Greeks and of foreigners may not lack their due fame; and, among other things, to show why these peoples came to make war on one another. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Herodotus Book, Asia Minor, Black Sea, King Xerxes, Ionian Greeks, Men of Persia, Red Sea, Aristagoras the Milesian, Isthmus of Corinth, King Darius, Long-lived Ethiopians, The Growth of Persia New!
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus here gives the results of his researches, so that the events of human history may not fade with time and the notable achievements both of Greeks and of foreigners may not lack their due fame; and, among other things, to show why these peoples came to make war on one another. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Herodotus Book, Asia Minor, Black Sea, King Xerxes, Ionian Greeks, Men of Persia, Red Sea, Aristagoras the Milesian, Isthmus of Corinth, King Darius, Long-lived Ethiopians, The Growth of Persia New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Persian Wars (Modern Library College Editions) by Herodotus in Front Matter
- Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Aeschylus on page 1
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