Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Herodotus; Strassler, Robert B. |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 6/2/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“The most densely annotated, richly illustrated, and user friendly edition” of the greatest classical work of history ever written (Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker)—from the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides.
Cicero called Herodotus “the father of history,”and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first true piece of historicalwriting in Western literature. With lucid prose, Herodotus’s account of the riseof the Persian Empire and its dramatic war with the Greek city sates set a standardfor narrative nonfiction that continues to this day. Illustrated, annotated, andfilled with maps—with an introduction by Rosalind Thomas, twenty-one appendices writtenby scholars at the top of their fields, and a new translation by Andrea L. Purvis—TheLandmark Herodotus is a stunning edition.
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