Herodotus: Histories Book I, Paperback - ***

An indispensable tool for teaching and reading Herodotus' first book in Greek. The Commentary provides considerable help with matters of language. ...

Book V of Herodotus' Histories begins the run-up to the Persian Wars of 490-479 B.C. with Persia's conquest of coastal Thrace after the Scythian ex...

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Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading p...

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``The father of history, `` as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Her...

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Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BCE, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He travelle...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Rachel (The National Archives, UK) HillmanNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 ...

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Edition and commentary providing both students and scholars with the background and guidance needed to understand and appreciate Ovid's poetry of e...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Denis MuoriaIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 202Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 202 x 33C...

Central to the study of history and the classics, this anthology contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history within the an...

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Publisher: Institute of Classical StudiesNumber of pages: 186Collection: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies SupplementsPublication date...

The second edition of a successful reader (first published in 1979) for intermediate students of ancient Greek which introduces three of ancient Gr...

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Intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the Mediterranean and Middle East, examining Herodotus's 2, 50...