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The Histories - Introduction by Rosalind Thomas (Hardcover)
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The Histories - Introduction by Rosalind Thomas (Hardcover)
Series: Everyman's Library Classics Series
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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 unsurps his throne and
his marriage bed, thereby bringing on, generations later, war with
the Persians--he 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. And in the generosity
of his spirit, in the instinctive empiricism that took him
searching over much of the known world for information, in the care
he took with sources and historical evidence, in his freedom from
intolerance and prejudice, he virtually defined the rational,
humane spirit that is the enduring legacy of Greek civilization.
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