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The Histories,Herodotus,Oxford University Press, Incorporated;Publishers Group Canada [Distributor]

The Histories (Oxford World's Classics)

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Herodotus; translated by Robin Waterfield; with an introduction and notes by Carolyn Dewald

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Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

German Historical Institute London

OUP Oxford

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press), Oxford [England, 1998

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Oxford University Press USA, Oxford, 2008

Oxford, New York, England, 2008

unknown, 2008

2004

Originally published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [594]-739) and index.

Cover 1
Contents 8
Introduction 10
Translator's Note 43
Select Bibliography 44
Timeline 47
THE HISTORIES 54
Appendix 1: A Note on Greek Clothing 644
Appendix 2: Weights, Measures, Money, and Distances 645
Explanatory Notes 647
Textual Notes 789
Glossary of Greek Terms 793
Glossary of Foreign Words Used by Herodotus 795
A 795
B 795
E 796
K 796
L 796
O 796
P 796
R 796
S 796
T 797
Z 797
Index of Proper Names 798
A 798
B 803
C 803
D 806
E 807
F 809
G 809
H 809
I 811
J 812
K 812
L 812
M 813
N 815
O 816
P 817
R 820
S 820
T 822
U 824
W 824
X 824
Z 825
Maps 826
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Cover 1
Contents 8
Introduction 10
Translator's Note 43
Select Bibliography 44
Timeline 47
THE HISTORIES 54
Appendix 1: A Note on Greek Clothing 644
Appendix 2: Weights, Measures, Money, and Distances 645
Explanatory Notes 647
Textual Notes 789
Glossary of Greek Terms 793
Glossary of Foreign Words Used by Herodotus 795
A 795
B 795
E 796
K 796
L 796
O 796
P 796
R 796
S 796
T 797
Z 797
Index of Proper Names 798
A 798
B 803
C 803
D 806
E 807
F 809
G 809
H 809
I 811
J 812
K 812
L 812
M 813
N 815
O 816
P 817
R 820
S 820
T 822
U 824
W 824
X 824
Z 825
Maps 826

<p>Herodotus is not only the father of the art and the science of historical writing but also one of the Western tradition's most compelling storytellers. In tales such as that of Gyges-who murders Candaules, the king of Lydia, and usurps his throne and his marriage bed, thereby bringing on, generations later, war with the Persians-Herodotus laid bare the intricate human entanglements at the core of great historical events. In his love for the stranger, more marvelous facts of the world, he infused his magnificent history with a continuous awareness of the mythic and the wonderful. For more than a hundred generations, his supple, lucid prose has drawn readers into his panoramic vision of the war between the Greek city-states and the great empire to the east.</p>

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 classical world of the 5th and 6th centuries. This readable new translation is supplemented with expansive notes to help the reader appreciate the book in depth

One of the earliest histories of the western world still extant, this gives a contemporary account of the Greco-Persian wars of the fifth century BCE with the rise of the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great.

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