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The Histories (Greek: Ἱστορίαι, Historíai; also known as The History) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs.
- Herodotus
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Herodotus, The Histories, Book 1, chapter 1, section 0. Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help.
Mar 1, 2010 · The histories. by. Herodotus; De Sélincourt, Aubrey; Marincola, John. Publication date. 2003. Publisher. London [u.a.] Penguin Books. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
Feb 4, 2010 · Herodotus was a Greek writer and geographer credited with being the first historian. Sometime around the year 425 B.C., Herodotus published his magnum opus: a long account of the Greco-Persian...
- Missy Sullivan
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May 22, 2016 · Herodotus’ Histories has it all: tales of war, eyewitness travel writing, notes on flora and fauna and accounts of fantastic creatures such as winged snakes.
- Julia Kindt
At the same time it is conceived that the freedom and variety of Herodotus is not always best reproduced by such severe consistency of rendering as is perhaps desirable in the case of the Epic writers before and the philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form ...
Jun 25, 2024 · Herodotus, Greek author of the first great narrative history produced in the ancient world, the History of the Greco-Persian Wars. He remains the leading source of original information not only for Greek history between 550 and 479 BCE but also for much of that of western Asia and of Egypt at that time.
