The Histories of Herodotus, A Translation By George Campbell Macaulay
Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in the 5th century BC in what is now modern-day Bodrum in Turkey (then part of the vast Persian Empire).A contemporary of Thucydides, Socrates, and Euripides he is often called 'The Father of History', initially by no less than Cicero.Herodotus broke from the then tradition to treat history as one of investigation of facts and evidence to present a better whole.The Histories is the only work for which he is known to have produced a record of his inquiry on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars; In it he deals with the lives of Croesus, Cyrus, Cambyses, Smerdis, Darius, and Xerxes and the battles of…
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Weitere Autoren: Macaulay, George Campbell (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78780-180-6
- EAN: 9781787801806
- Produktnummer: 32939757
- Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 503 g
- Gewicht: 503
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