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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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Histories (Paperback, New edition)
Herodotus; Translated by George Rawlinson; Notes by George Rawlinson; Introduction by Tom Griffith; Series edited by Tom Griffith
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Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by
Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and
his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing.
They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the
26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to
Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of
Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest
language in the world? Why did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans spend
the morning before the battle of Thermopylae combing their hair?
Why did every Babylonian woman have to sit in the Temple of
Aphrodite until a man threw a coin into her lap, and how long was
she likely to sit there? And what is the best way to kill a
crocodile? This wide-ranging history provides the answers to all
these fascinating questions as well as providing many fascinating
insights into the Ancient World.
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Parthia (Hardcover)
George Rawlinson
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Discovery Miles 11 360
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A Manual of Ancient History, From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire. Comprising the History of Chaldæa, Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Lydia, Phnicia, Syria, Judæa, Egypt, Carthage, Persia, Greece, Macedonia, Parthia, and Rome
George Rawlinson
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A Manual of Ancient History, From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire. Comprising the History of Chaldæa, Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Lydia, Phnicia, Syria, Judæa, Egypt, Carthage, Persia, Greece, Macedonia, Parthia, and Rome (Paperback)
George Rawlinson
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