The Histories (Herodotus)(Paperback)

Histories (Herodotus)(Paperback / softback)

The Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first work of history and the first great masterpiece of non-fiction writing. This book offers a translation of Herodotus'

Histories (Herodotus)(Pevná vazba)

Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order to explain how this war came about, he also describes the rise of the Persian empire and analyses the causes of its conflict with neighbouring

The Histories (Herodotus)(Paperback)

'The father of history,' as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in the classics. Compelled by his desire to 'prevent the traces of human events from being erased by

The Histories (Herodotus)(Paperback)

Translated by Aubrey de S lincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best

The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories (Strassler Robert B.)(Paperback)

'The most densely annotated, richly illustrated, and user friendly edition' of the greatest classical work of history ever written (Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker)--from the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides.Cicero called Herodotus 'the father of history,' and his only work,

Stories from Herodotus (Oakes Lorna)(Paperback)

Herodotus wrote the first history book in the world. That is why he is sometimes called the 'Father of History'. He lived about 2,500 years ago in the fifth century BC. He was born at a place called Halicarnassus in Asia Minor. The modern names for these places are Bodrum in Turkey. Herodotus was a

Herodotus (Roberts Jennifer T.)(Paperback)

Hailed by Cicero as 'the father of history,' Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveler who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words, in particular, the wars between Greece and Persia. In his hands, the Greeks'

The Persian Wars (Herodotus)(Pevná vazba)

Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BCE, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He travelled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Assuan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and

The Persian War in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices (Shepherd William)(Pevná vazba)

Weaving together the accounts of the ancient historian Herodotus with other ancient sources, this is the engrossing story of the triumph of Greece over the mighty Persian Empire. The Persian War is the name generally given to the first two decades of the period of conflict between the Greeks and

The Afterlife of Herodotus and Thucydides (North John)(Paperback)

This is one of the volumes in the series of 'Afterlives' of the Classics, which is being produced jointly by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg

Travels with Herodotus (Kapuscinski Ryszard)(Paperback / softback)

Records how the author set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. The author sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean

Book 1 - Text in Greek, Commentary in English (Herodotus)(Paperback / softback)

Book 3 - Text in Greek, Commentary in English (Herodotus)(Paperback / softback)

Man Who Invented History - Travels with Herodotus (Marozzi Justin)(Paperback / softback)

A sensational blend of travel and history in the spirit of the man who invented

On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian (Marincola John M.)(Paperback)

What is history and how should it be written? An important new anthology containing the seminal texts on the writing of history in the ancient world Honorable Mention for the 13th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study The study of history was invented in the

The Histories (Tacitus)(Paperback)

In The Histories Cornelius Tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous year of the Four Emperors'--AD 69--when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. W.H. Fyfe's classic translation has been

Shakespeare: The Histories (Blades John)(Paperback)

The Histories (Polybius)(Paperback)

Here is the first new translation for over thirty years of Polybius' Histories, the major source for our knowledge of the Eternal City's early rise to power, covering the years of the Second Punic War, the defeat of Hannibal, and Rome's pivotal victories in the Mediterranean. Polybius, himself a

Catiline's War, the Jurgurthine War, Histories (Sallust)(Paperback)

Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History: Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 14 (Darnell Regna)(Paperback)

The series Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline's history within a global context, with a goal of increasing the awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative,

Nile: Urban Histories on the Banks of a River (Alsayyad Nezar)(Paperback)

Histories of the Self: Personal Narratives and Historical Practice (Summerfield Penny)(Paperback)

Histories of the Self interrogates historians' work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Historians are interested as never before in how

Black Watch and the Great War, 1914-18 - Rediscovered Histories from the Regimental Family(Paperback / softback)

The Annals & the Histories (Tacitus)(Paperback)

Cornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula),