Histories: Herodotus

Histories
de Heródoto

772 pp.
Everyman's Library, 1997
9781857152340

Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order to explain how this war came about, he also describes the rise of the Persian empire and analyses the causes of its conflict with neighbouring states.