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Herodotus: The Histories
Herodotus The Histories
Author: Herodotus
This edition is a revised version of Aubrey de Selincourt's celebrated translation and includes a new introduction, additional notes, glossary, chronology and bibliography.
ISBN-13: 9780140446388
ISBN-10: 0140446389
Publication Date: 9/1/1996
Pages: 688
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
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This is the first great prose work in European literature. Its main these is the heroic and successful struggle of a small and divided Greece against the mighty empire of Persia. The only reason I'm trading it is that I bought the hardback.
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I have no basis of comparison regarding the translation but I found the book readable and interesting


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