Download The Histories By Herodotus Pictures. Around 425 b.c., the writer and geographer herodotus published his magnum opus: The histories of herodotus is considered the founding work of history in western literature.

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There are links to herodotus' texts and mapping developed by the hestia project. Start of this project gutenberg ebook the history of herodotus ***. The history of herodotus, translated by george rawlinson.

The first section of book i, the history and description of lydia and its conquest by the persians, is followed by the story of cyrus himself, his defeat of the medes and a description of persia proper, his attack on.

The historian herodotus was the first person who wrote a history book. Herodotus was the first writer that we know of (probably really the first) who tried to (in his own words) find out what had happened in the past so that what people. The persian wars, translated by a. Indeed few history books written since can compare for sheer drama with herodotus' narrative of the persian invasions of greece, and the histories above all, as holland says in his translator's preface, 'herodotus is the most entertaining of historians.