Herodotus: Histories Book V
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One of the most important works of history in Western literature, by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors, Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and widely studied period of Greek history, Book V not only describes the revolt of the east Greeks against their Persian masters, which led to the great Persian Wars of 490–479 BC, but also provides fascinating material about…
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Key features
- Enables students to appreciate Herodotus in the original Greek by helping them overcome the challenges of language and idiom posed by his work
- Commentary explains and situates all episodes in a clear historical framework, enabling readers to appreciate the work as a historical document as well as a literary text
- Provides full and helpful discussions of the ways in which literary theory and the rhetoric of narrative and of speeches can be applied to the text
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139050968
- Series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
- Subjects Ancient History,Classical Literature,Classical Studies
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 27 January 2014
- ISBN: 9780521878715
- Dimensions (mm): 216 x 138 mm
- Weight: 0.57kg
- Contains: 2 b/w illus. 5 maps
- Page extent: 374 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 31 January 2014
- ISBN: 9780521703406
- Dimensions (mm): 216 x 138 mm
- Weight: 0.47kg
- Contains: 2 b/w illus. 5 maps
- Page extent: 374 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 16 October 2018
- ISBN: 9781139050968
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