Herodotus

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Herodotus

The Persian War

Herausgeber: Shepherd, William

Beschreibung

Selections from Herodotus' History which follow the events of the great war between the Greeks and the Persians. The translated extracts include Herodotus' descriptions of the preparations for war and of the great land- and sea-battles which took place. Linking commentaries explain Greek and Persian strategies and battle manoeuvres.

Autor

Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer who was born in the city of Halicarnassus, which was part of the Persian Empire and is now Bodrum, Turkey. He later moved to Thurii, which is now in the Italian region of Calabria (Italy). The Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, was written by him. Herodotus has been criticized because his work has "legends and made-up stories." Thucydides, a historian who lived at the same time, said that he made up stories for fun. But Herodotus said that he only wrote about what he could see and hear. Herodotus would have told people about his research by reading it out loud in front of a crowd. In the introduction to the Penguin edition of the Histories, John Marincola says that there are parts of Herodotus's early books that could be called "performance pieces." Thucydides and Herodotus became friends over time, and they became close enough that they were both buried in Thucydides' tomb in Athens.

Produktdetails

• Translations from Greek and Roman Authors
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 1982
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9780521281942
• ISBN-10: 0521281946
• Artikelnr.: 24320708