The History

The rousing story of the Greeks and Persians, their war and their world, by the man Cicero called "the father of history" In this edition of Herodotus's monumental account of the ancient world, David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of the book and the writer that founded the entire field of history writing.Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. In his History, the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal drama.In Grene's remarkable translation and commentary, we see the historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration the skeletal "historical" facts and the imaginative reality toward which his story reaches.

The History features in the following genres: Literary essays, General and world history, Ancient history

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The History was written by Herodotus and published by The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press

The History has 710 pages

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