TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts, Jennifer
TI  - Herodotus : a very short introduction
SN  - 9780199575992
U1  - G 938.007202 
PY  - 0000///211p; paperback
CY  - New York 
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Herodotus
KW  -  Historiography -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
KW  - History, Ancient -- Historiography
KW  - Greece -- History -- Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C -- Historiography
N1  - UROPEAN HISTORY: BCE TO C 500 CE. Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words; more narrowly, he determined to discover the causes of the wars between Greece and Persia and to explain them to his fellow Greeks. In his hands, the Greeks' unforeseeable defeat of the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes, with their vast hosts, made for fascinating storytelling. Influenced by the work of the natural scientists and philosophers of his own and earlier eras, Herodotus also brought his literary talents to bear on a vast, unruly mass of information gathered from many interviews throughout his travels and left behind him the longest work that had ever been written in Greek - the first work of history, and one which continues to be read with enjoyment today
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