Author : Arslonga Press
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2021-01-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781735575704
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus traveled the world, collecting stories wherever he went. These tales will amuse and edify readers of all ages, while summoning up a lost world of kings and tyrants, oracles and prophecies, wily heroes, tragic fates, and the rise and fall of empires.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 1912
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ISBN :
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Herodotus, the great Greek historian, wrote this famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians in a delightful style. Herodotus portrays the dispute as one between the forces of slavery on the one hand and freedom on the other. This work covers the rise of the Persian influence and a history of the Persian empire, a description and history of Egypt, and a long digression on the landscape and traditions of Scythia. Because of the comprehensiveness of this work, it was considered the founding work of history in Western literature. A must-have for history enthusiasts.
Author : Philip S. Peek
Publisher : Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Greece
ISBN : 9780806161037
Book V of the Histories focuses on the Persians and their expansion into Thrakia and Makedonia, as well as their conflict with the Greeks of Ionia.
Author : Lorna Oakes
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781910461082
Herodotus wrote the first history book in the world. That is why he is sometimes called the 'Father of History'. He lived 2,500 years ago in the fifth century BC and travelled the Ancient or Classical World. King Leonidas of Sparta and the Battle of Thermopylae, made famous by the blockbuster movie 300, began with Herodotus' historical story.
Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2009-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307548236
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of the Greek historiographer helped shape his own view of an increasingly globalized world. Written with supreme eloquence and a constant eye to the global undercurrents that have shaped the last half-century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey across continents.
Author : , Emily Baragwanath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0199693978
This volume brings together 13 original articles which review, re-establish, and rehabilitate the origins, forms, and functions of the mythological elements that are found in the narratives of Herodotus' Histories.
Author : Debra Hamel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 142140656X
How to destroy a mighty empire: the story of Croesus of Lydia -- Cannibals and conquests: the story of Cyrus the Great -- Horny goats and medicinal urine: the Egyptian logos -- Madness and mummies: the reign of Cambyses -- Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Mediterranean: the stories of Polycrates and Periander -- Earless imposters and randy mounts: the early reign of Darius the Great -- The trouble with nomads: Darius' Scythian campaign -- Stuttering colonists and lousy deaths: the Libyan logos -- Tattooed slaves and ousted tyrants: post-Pisistratid Athens and the Ionian revolt -- Miltiades, madness, and Marathon: the first Persian War -- Feats of engineering and doomed valor: the Second Persian War to the Battle of Thermopylae -- Trial by trireme: the Battles at Artemisium and Salamis -- Concluding scenes: the Battles of Plataea and Mycale and the siege of Sestus.
Author : Plutarque
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0856685682
The Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the course of 'correcting' with considerable vituperation what he saw as Herodotus' anti-Greek bias, Plutarch tells us much about his own attitude to writing history. So that together with Lucian's How to Write History (see Lucian A Selection in this series) it forms a basic text for the study of Greek historiography. It is also perhaps the most revealing example of Plutarch's prose style with its rhetorical variety and energy and odd mixture of good and bad argument. But in citing lost works, Plutarch has preserved valuable fragments which don't exist elsewhere and need to be assessed by all students of the Persian Wars. Greek text with translion, introduction and commentary.
Author : Herodotus
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2016-04-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781354762509
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