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The Histories: A New Translation by Tom Holland by Herodotus
Category: Classic Fiction
'The two sides rained arrows down upon one another from a distance; then, when all their missiles were spent, they clashed and grappled together in close combat, stabbing with spears, fighting hand to hand with daggers.' The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of non-fic ...Show more
The Histories: Herodotus by Herodotus; Aubrey De Selincourt (Translator); A. R. Burn (Notes by, Revised by, Introduction by)
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Classics
Widely referred to as the "Father of History", Greek Historian Herodotus lived during the 5th century BC and "The Histories" is generally accepted as the first work of historical literature in Western Civilization. Departing from the ancient Homeric tradition of treating historical subjects as epically ...Show more
The Landmark Herodotus by Herodotus
Category: General Fiction
From the editor of the widely praised "The Landmark Thucydides," a new Landmark Edition of "The Histories" by Herodotus, the greatest classical work of history ever written. Herodotus was a Greek historian living in Ionia during the fifth century BCE. He traveled extensively through the lands of the Me ...Show more
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Herodotus
Category: History
In the 5th century BC an adventurous Ionian Greek, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, journeyed extensively through the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, from Egypt to Asia Minor, collecting tales of the upheavals that had afflicted the region in the earlier part of the century. The fruits of his wanderings ...Show more
Xerxes Invades Greece by Herodotus
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Epics Ser.
Second-hand, shorter, paperback in good condition. A king who would be worshipped as a god . . . When Xerxes, King of Persia, crosses the Hellespont at the head of a formidable army, it seems inevitable that Greece will be crushed beneath its might. But the Greeks are far harder to defeat than he cou ...Show more