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Author : Peter Derow,Robert Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0199253749
This collection of essays illuminates Herodotus and the world in which he wrote.
Author : Herodotus,James Romm
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624661150
This volume includes a wealth of helpful footnotes; more than a dozen maps and illustrations; a chronology of the Archaic Age; a glossary of main characters, places, and terms; suggested further reading; and an index of proper nouns.
Author : Jeanne Bendick
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781932350203
Best-selling author Jeanne Bendick takes us for another informative—and amusing—journey into places and events of long ago. Herodotus and the Road to History, written in the first person, details the investigative journeys of Herodotus—a contemporary of the Old Testament prophet Malachi—as he takes ship from Greece and voyages to the limits of his own ancient world. His persistence, amidst disbelief and ridicule, in the self-appointed task of recording his discoveries as “histories” (the Greek word meaning “inquiry”), means that today we can still follow his expeditions into the wonder and mystery of Syria, Persia, Egypt and the “barbaric” north. Jeanne Bendick's lucid text, humorous illustrations and helpful maps entertain and instruct as they open the way for readers young and old to once again join Herodotus . . . on the road to history.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199535668
Originally published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 1853264660
This work comprises the first western historical writing. It provides a history of the then known world, and provides answers to questions such as: why did Pheidippides run from Marathon to Athens and why did Leonides and the Spartans comb their hair before the battle of Thermopylae.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Greece
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005534487
Author : Philip S. Peek
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780806162553
History begins with Herodotus (485–425 b.c.e.). Born in Halikarnassos, a gateway between the Greek and Persian worlds, Herodotus in his Histories narrates the great historical struggle between the Persian Empire and the Greek-speaking city-states at the dawn of the classical era. Herodotus does not merely list events or tell tales; his history inquires into the causes of events and casts its net wide to include ethnography and legend as well as political and military history. Book V of the Histories focuses on the Persians and their expansion into Thrakia and Makedonia, as well as their conflict with the Greeks of Ionia. Beginning in the timeless legends of prehistory, Herodotus discusses the customs of the Thrakians, offers insight into Sparta’s mindset, and narrates the struggle to restore democracy at Athens after the reign of the tyrant Peisistratos. The narrative of Book V sprawls over Asia, Africa, and Europe, naming more than 350 people and places. The reader will find in Herodotus a literate, keenly observant, wide-ranging guide to a time when Persia ruled 40 percent of the world's population and was confronted by an uneasy and fragile alliance of Greek city-states. In his introduction to the text and commentary, author Philip S. Peek outlines a process by which students of ancient Greek can develop translation and reading skills. For students’ convenience, Peek pairs the Greek text with the commentary and includes in the book’s appendices a case and function chart, an explanation of infinitives, a summary of the subjunctive and optative moods, a list of parsing terms, and a list of the 500 most commonly occurring Greek words. A comprehensive glossary rounds out the volume. As further aids to students, running vocabulary for each text section and a generalized list of the principal parts of verbs can be downloaded from oupress.com.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681462967
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC (c.484 - 425 BC). He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories-his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced-is a record of his "inquiry", being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information. The Histories, were divided into nine books, named after the nine Muses: the "Muse of History", Clio, representing the first book, then Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope for books 2 to 9, respectively.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400031146
“The most densely annotated, richly illustrated, and user friendly edition” of the greatest classical work of history ever written (Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker)—from the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides. Cicero called Herodotus "the father of history," and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature. With lucid prose, Herodotus's account of the rise of the Persian Empire and its dramatic war with the Greek city sates set a standard for narrative nonfiction that continues to this day. Illustrated, annotated, and filled with maps—with an introduction by Rosalind Thomas, twenty-one appendices written by scholars at the top of their fields, and a new translation by Andrea L. Purvis—The Landmark Herodotus is a stunning edition.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066464400
Herodotus, the great Greek historian, wrote this famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians in a delightful style. Herodotus portrays the dispute as one between the forces of slavery on the one hand and freedom on the other. This work covers the rise of the Persian influence and a history of the Persian empire, a description and history of Egypt, and a long digression on the landscape and traditions of Scythia. Because of the comprehensiveness of this work, it was considered the founding work of history in Western literature. A must-have for history enthusiasts.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226327754
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 what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. In his History, the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal drama. In Grene's remarkable translation and commentary, we see the historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration the skeletal "historical" facts and the imaginative reality toward which his story reaches. Herodotus emerges in all his charm and complexity as a writer and the first historian in the Western tradition, perhaps unique in the way he has seen the interrelation of fact and fantasy. "Reading Herodotus in English has never been so much fun. . . . Herodotus crowds his fresco-like pages with all shades of humanity. Whether Herodotus's view is 'tragic,' mythical, or merely common sense, it provided him with a moral salt with which the diversity of mankind could be savored. And savor it we do in David Grene's translation."—Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor "Grene's work is a monument to what translation intends, and to what it is hungry to accomplish. . . . Herodotus gives more sheer pleasure than almost any other writer."—Peter Levi, New York Times Book Review
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:644270969
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0469509945
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Author : Rosalind Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521012414
An examination of Herodotus' Histories in the context of the intellectual developments of his time.
Author : Joel Alden Schlosser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226704845
We are living in the age of the Anthropocene, in which human activities are recognized for effecting potentially catastrophic environmental change. In this book, Joel Alden Schlosser argues that our current state of affairs calls for a creative political response, and he finds inspiration in an unexpected source: the ancient writings of the Greek historian Herodotus. Focusing on the Histories, written in the fifth century BCE, Schlosser identifies a cluster of concepts that allow us to better grasp the dynamic complexity of a world in flux. Schlosser shows that the Histories, which chronicle the interactions among the Greek city-states and their neighbors that culminated in the Persian Wars, illuminate a telling paradox: at those times when humans appear capable of exerting more influence than ever before, they must also assert collective agency to avoid their own downfall. Here, success depends on nomoi, or the culture, customs, and laws that organize human communities and make them adaptable through cooperation. Nomoi arise through sustained contact between humans and their surroundings and function best when practiced willingly and with the support of strong commitments to the equality of all participants. Thus, nomoi are the very substance of political agency and, ultimately, the key to freedom and ecological survival because they guide communities to work together to respond to challenges. An ingenious contribution to political theory, political philosophy, and ecology, Herodotus in the Anthropocene reminds us that the best perspective on the present can often be gained through the lens of the past.