Herodotus Histories I

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521596505

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Herodotus: Histories Book IX by Herodotus Pdf

Book IX of Herodotus' Histories provides the conclusion and climax to his work, as the victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable Greek victory over Persia. The major themes of the work are all here echoed, modified, and revisited, and Book IX is thus essential for exploring its meaning (or range of possible meanings). This commentary, the first in English devoted solely to Book IX in over a century, treats Herodotus' work as both an historical narrative and a work of literature, incorporating the results of recent scholarly work in the fields of Greek history and historiography. It contains a Greek text together with detailed philological, literary, and historical notes designed to assist the intermediate and advanced Greek student. It will also be of use to graduate students and scholars.

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107029347

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Herodotus: Histories Book VI by Herodotus Pdf

Treats Herodotus' compelling narrative of the Battle of Marathon. Detailed commentary will aid both translation and literary and historical appreciation.

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056163598

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Herodotus: Histories I by Herodotus Pdf

"Book I" of the Histories provides a particularly good illustration of the discursiveness and diversity of Herodotus' materials and of the ingenuity with which he develops his narrative and welds it into an artistic whole. Here he deals first with the distant mythological past and then in greater detail with the more recent history of Greek relations with the Near East, in an attempt to explain the origin of the quarrels between east and west which formed the background to the Persian Wars. This edition, formerly published by Cambridge University Press in their Pitt Press Series (1909, reissued 1927) contains a serviceable introduction, text and careful annotation on matters of language and content. There is also a very useful explanatory index of historical and geographical names.

Author : Philip S. Peek
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780806162560

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Herodotus, Histories, Book V by Philip S. Peek Pdf

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 : 48 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681462943

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The Histories Book 5: Terpsichore by Herodotus Pdf

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 : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521878715

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Herodotus: Histories Book V by Herodotus Pdf

One of the most important works of history in Western literature, by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors, Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and widely studied period of Greek history, Book V not only describes the revolt of the east Greeks against their Persian masters, which led to the great Persian Wars of 490-479 BC, but also provides fascinating material about the mainland Greek states in the sixth century BC. This is an up-to-date edition of and commentary on the Greek text of the book, providing extensive help with the Greek, basic historical information and clear maps, as well as lucid and insightful historical and literary interpretation of the text. The volume is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, teachers and scholars.

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681462967

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The Histories Book 7: Polymnia by Herodotus Pdf

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 : Simon and Schuster
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681462981

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The Histories Book 9: Calliope by Herodotus Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:644270969

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The History of Herodotus by Herodotus Pdf

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199535668

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The Histories by Herodotus Pdf

Originally published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Author : Jeanne Bendick
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781932350203

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Herodotus by Jeanne Bendick Pdf

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 : Elizabeth Irwin,Emily Greenwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139466745

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Reading Herodotus by Elizabeth Irwin,Emily Greenwood Pdf

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' Histories. Each chapter studies a separate logos in Book 5 and pursues two closely related lines of inquiry: first, to propose an individual thesis about the political, historical, and cultural significance of the subjects that Herodotus treats in Book 5, and second, to analyze the connections and continuities between its logos and the overarching structure of Herodotus' narrative. This collection of twelve essays by internationally renowned scholars represents an important contribution to scholarship on Herodotus and will serve as an essential research tool for all those interested in Book 5 of the Histories, the interpretation of Herodotean narrative, and the historiography of the Ionian Revolt.

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107511842

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Herodotus: Histories Book V by Herodotus Pdf

One of the most important works of history in Western literature, by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors, Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and widely studied period of Greek history, Book V not only describes the revolt of the east Greeks against their Persian masters, which led to the great Persian Wars of 490–479 BC, but also provides fascinating material about the mainland Greek states in the sixth century BC. This is an up-to-date edition of and commentary on the Greek text of the book, providing extensive help with the Greek, basic historical information and clear maps, as well as lucid and insightful historical and literary interpretation of the text. The volume is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, teachers and scholars.

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Greece
ISBN : UIUC:30112023792424

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Herodotus Book IX. by Herodotus Pdf

Author : Sean Sheehan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474292689

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A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories by Sean Sheehan Pdf

Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our Ur-historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. Our readings can bring out various guises of Herodotus himself: an author with the eye of a travel writer and the mind of an investigative journalist; a globalist, enlightened but superstitious; a rambling storyteller but a prose stylist; the so-called 'father of history' but in antiquity also labelled the 'father of lies'; both geographer and gossipmonger; both entertainer and an author whom social and cultural historians read and admire. Guiding students chapter-by-chapter through approaches as fascinating and often surprising as the original itself, Sean Sheehan goes beyond conventional Herodotus introductions and instead looks at the various interpretations of the work, which themselves shed light on the original. With text boxes highlighting key topics and indices of passages, this volume is an essential guide for students whether reading Herodotus for the first time, or returning to revisit this crucial text for later research.