The Histories Book 7: Polymnia

Author: Herodotus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681462966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the fifth century BC (c.484 - 425 BC). He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories-his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced-is a record of his "inquiry", being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information. The Histories, were divided into nine books, named after the nine Muses: the "Muse of History", Clio, representing the first book, then Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania and Calliope for books 2 to 9, respectively.

The Histories Book 5: Terpsichore

Author: Herodotus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 168146294X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Herodotus, Histories, Book V

Author: Philip S. Peek
Publisher: Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture
ISBN: 9780806161037
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Book V of the Histories focuses on the Persians and their expansion into Thrakia and Makedonia, as well as their conflict with the Greeks of Ionia.

The Histories Book 2: Euterpe

Author: Herodotus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162558041X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 99

A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories

Author: Sean Sheehan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474292682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by scholars: as the seminal text of our Ur-historian, as ethnology, literary art and fable. Our readings can bring out various guises of Herodotus himself: an author with the eye of a travel writer and the mind of an investigative journalist; a globalist, enlightened but superstitious; a rambling storyteller but a prose stylist; the so-called 'father of history' but in antiquity also labelled the 'father of lies'; both geographer and gossipmonger; both entertainer and an author whom social and cultural historians read and admire. Guiding students chapter-by-chapter through approaches as fascinating and often surprising as the original itself, Sean Sheehan goes beyond conventional Herodotus introductions and instead looks at the various interpretations of the work, which themselves shed light on the original. With text boxes highlighting key topics and indices of passages, this volume is an essential guide for students whether reading Herodotus for the first time, or returning to revisit this crucial text for later research.

Richer of Saint-Remi

Author: Justin Lake
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813221250
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Building upon, but also moving beyond, previous scholarship that has focused on Richer's political allegiances and his views of kingship, this study by Justin Lake provides the most comprehensive synthesis of the History, examining Richer's use and abuse of his sources, his relationship to Gerbert, and the motives that led him to write.

The Histories Book 9: Calliope

Author: Herodotus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681462982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Herodotus: Histories Book V

Author: Herodotus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521878713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
One of the most important works of history in Western literature, by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors, Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and widely studied period of Greek history, Book V not only describes the revolt of the east Greeks against their Persian masters, which led to the great Persian Wars of 490-479 BC, but also provides fascinating material about the mainland Greek states in the sixth century BC. This is an up-to-date edition of and commentary on the Greek text of the book, providing extensive help with the Greek, basic historical information and clear maps, as well as lucid and insightful historical and literary interpretation of the text. The volume is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, teachers and scholars.

The Histories

Author: Herodotus
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199535663
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 849

Book Description
Originally published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

The History of Herodotus, Volume 4

Author: Herodotus
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781354762509
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
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