The History of Herodotus (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Herodotus
- First Published: 425
- Type of Work: History
- Setting: Greece, Egypt, and Asia Minor
- Principal Characters: Croesus, Solon, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, Leonidas
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Asia or Asians, War, Kings, queens, or royalty, Egypt or Egyptians, Greek or Roman times, Middle East, Greece or Greek people, Heads of state, Iran or Iranian people
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Egypt, ancient, Asia Minor, ancient
Herodotus wrote and compiled a history of the wars of the Grecians and Persians of the fifth century b.c.e. The famous first sentence of the work reads:
I, Herodotus of Helicarnassus, am here setting forth my history, that time may not draw the color from what man has brought into being, nor those great and wonderful deeds, manifested by both Greeks and barbarians, fail of their report, and, together with all this, the reason why they fought one another.
As the first to use the word “history,” Herodotus deserves Cicero’s title, “father of history.” To be sure,...
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