The Histories: Introduction by Rosalind ThomasKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015 M01 21 - 816 pages Herodotus is not only the father of the art and the science of historical writing but also one of the Western tradition's most compelling storytellers. In tales such as that of Gyges—who murders Candaules, the king of Lydia, and unsurps his throne and his marriage bed, thereby bringing on, generations later, war with the Persians—he laid bare the intricate human entanglements at the core of great historical events. In his love for the stranger, more marvelous facts of the world, he infused his magnificent history with a continuous awareness of the mythic and the wonderful. |
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The Ibis 76 Daily life of the Egyptians 7780 Dress | 84 |
with Sparta 6970 Croesus warned 71 Croesus invades | 92 |
Decision of Otanes 83 Privileges of the Six 84 Darius | 94 |
the earths extremities 106116 The river Aces 117 Fate | 120 |
Media 95 Early Median History 96107 Birth | 123 |
Persians 131140 Cyrus threatens the Ionian Greeks 141 | 141 |
cures Darius 129 130 His former history 131 His influence | 150 |
Account of the Greek settlements in Asia 142151 Sparta | 171 |
Story of Periander 4853 Siege of Samos 5456 Fate | 71 |
Egyptian Festivals 5864 Sacred animals 6567 | 74 |
of Babylon 178187 Cyrus marches on Babylon 188190 | 188 |
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