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The History of Herodotus

The History of Herodotus

Macaulay, G. C.
Herodotus

Paperback

Ancient GreeceBilingual EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1511531002
ISBN13: 9781511531009
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 1 2015
Pages: 656
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.32 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The History of Herodotus is now considered as the founding work of history in Western literature. Written from the 450s to the 420s BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Western Asia, Northern Africa and Greece at that time. It is not an impartial record but it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs. Moreover, it established without precedent the genre and study of history in the Western world, although historical records and chronicles existed beforehand. It stands as one of the first accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire, the events of, and causes for, the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Herodotus portrays the conflict as one between the forces of slavery (the Persians) on the one hand, and freedom (the Athenians and the confederacy of Greek city-states which united against the invaders) on the other. The Histories was at some point divided into the nine books of modern editions, conventionally named after the Muses.

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