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Herodotus: The Histories
Herodotus The Histories
Author: Herodotus, A. R. Burn (Editor) Aubrey de Selincourt (Translator)
During the fifth century BC, a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city-states united to repel a mighty Persian army. While the story of this heroic drama forms the main theme of Herodotus' narrative, the author's curiosity fleshes out the text with digressions, folk tales and stories.
ISBN-13: 9780140440348
ISBN-10: 0140440348
Publication Date: 8/30/1954
Pages: 656
Edition: New Impression
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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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