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The Persian Wars, Volume IV: Books 8-9 (Loeb Classical Library)

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Description for The Persian Wars, Volume IV: Books 8-9 (Loeb Classical Library) Hardcover. After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born c. 484 BCE) gives us in his famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find. Translator(s): Godley, A.D. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 417 pages, 2M. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 170 x 110 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.

The “Father of History.”

Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived, it seems, for some time in Athens, and in 443 went with other colonists to the new city Thurii (in South Italy), where he died about 430. He ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Loeb
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1925
Series
Loeb Classical Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674991347
SKU
V9780674991347
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About Herodotus
Alfred Denis Godley (1856–1925) was Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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