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The History by Herodotus (1988, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. 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. Herodotus emerges in all his charm and complexity as a writer and the first historian in the Western tradition, perhaps unique in the way he has seen the interrelation of fact and fantasy. "Reading Herodotus in English has never been so much fun. . . . Herodotus crowds his fresco-like pages with all shades of humanity. Whether Herodotus's view is 'tragic,' mythical, or merely common sense, it provided him with a moral salt with which the diversity of mankind could be savored. And savor it we do in David Grene's translation."--Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor "Grene's work is a monument to what translation intends, and to what it is hungry to accomplish. . . . Herodotus gives more sheer pleasure than almost any other writer."--Peter Levi, New York Times Book Review

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226327728
ISBN-13
9780226327723
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71075

Product Key Features

Book Title
History
Author
Herodotus
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Ancient / General, Ancient / Greece
Publication Year
1988
Genre
History
Number of Pages
710 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
27.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
D58 .H4713 1987
Edition Description
Reprint
Table of Content
List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction Book One Book Two Book Three Book Four Book Five Book Six Book Seven Book Eight Book Nine End Notes Index
Copyright Date
1988
Lccn
86-013635
Dewey Decimal
930
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes

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