Joseph Williams Blakesley ; Herodotus Herodotus

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 b

Herodotus (ca. 484-424 v.Chr.) schreef het oudste bewaard gebleven prozawerk van Europa. Zijn uitgangspunt was oorlog. De slagen bij Marathon, Thermop

First published 1920-1925. Frequently and varyingly republished and reprinted.

Book VIII of Herodotus' Histories covers the early part of the unsuccessful invasion of Greece by Xerxes, king of Persia. Its centre-piece is the unex