Filled with insights into the unique geography and anthropology of the time, Herodotus also delves into the human psyche, exploring the importance of religion, the costs of war, the sacrifice of life, and what it meant to be a free and independent state. In his Histories, he recounts the rise of the Persian Empire and its tumultuous war with the Greek city-states. Purvis, with a introduction by Rosalind Thomas, The Landmark Herodotus is a hefty tome that will delight any historian or fan of Herodotus and the classical Greek period.Ĭalled “the father of history” by Cicero, Herodotus was an Ionian Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BCE. Strassler, editor of The Landmark Thucydides, now brings us The Landmark Herodotus. Classical history through primary sources has never been so accessible, with the success of Robert Fagles’ translations of The Odyssey, The Iliad, and The Aeneid Robert B.
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