Sophist Kings: Persians as Other in Herodotus, Vernon L. Provencal

Автор: Herodotus
Название: The Histories
ISBN: 0199535663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199535668
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Описание: Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history`, as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the information he gives has proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also entertains us with delightful tales of one-eyed men and gold-digging ants. This superbly readable new translation is supplemented by expansive notes that provide readers the background that they need to appreciate the book in depth.

Автор: Munson Rosaria Vignolo
Название: Herodotus
ISBN: 0199587574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199587575
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Описание: This collection - the first of two volumes - is dedicated to the historical component of Herodotus` Histories and includes important previously published essays, some translated into English for the first time, which discuss his historical method, sources, narrative art, literary antecedents, intellectual background, and political ideology.

Автор: Evans James Allan Stewart
Название: Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays
ISBN: 0691605858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691605852
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Описание: Why does a power expand and become an empire? Writing in the early years of the Peloponnesian War, Herodotus gave Athens full credit for saving Greece from Persia, but also identified the city`s expansion as a new manifestation of imperialist aggression. In this skillful analysis of Herodotus` intellectual world, J.A.S. Evans combines historical, a

Автор: Herodotus.
Название: The history
ISBN: 0226327728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226327723
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Описание: 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

Автор: Herodotus
Название: The Essential Herodotus
ISBN: 0199897956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199897957
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Описание: Breathing new life into the writings of the West`s first historian, The Essential Herodotus combines balanced selections of his work with succinct commentary and notes. The first collection of its kind, this volume presents Herodotus`s well-known writings on politics and war alongside his research on folk traditions, foreign cultures, and natural wonders. William A. Johnson`s clear and lively translations make the original texts accessible in all theirrichness. Ideal for novices and historians alike, The Essential Herodotus reminds a 21st-century audience why these texts have stood the test of time.