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The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)

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 | #526024 in Books |  1998-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.00 x1.50 x7.40l,1.27 | File type: PDF | 796 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The Ancient World's Most Celebrated Gossip|By Dr. Limfoma Mbweebwee|Readable, entertaining, and historically priceless.

Herodotus is a gossip, not a journalist or historian. With the help of an able translator, he talks to the reader the way a hairdresser talks to his favorite client. And he doesn't leave out the juicy stuff.

Are his facts right? No. Somet|About the Author|Carolyn Dewald is Associate 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'.

"The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in the classics. Compelled by his desire to "prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time," Herotodus recounts the incidents preceding and following the Persian Wars. He gives us much more than military history, though, providing the fullest portrait of the cla...

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